Following on from the success of PROBA-1, whichsuccessfully completed its technological goals in its firstyear of flight and continues to provide valuablescientific data now into its fifth operational year,PROBA-2, now in phase C/D and due for launch inSeptember 2007, will once again fly a suite of newtechnology demonstrators with an 'added value' sciencepackage of four experiments. Altogether there areseventeen new developments being flown on Proba-2,divided into two groups: platform technologies whichare part of the infrastructure and are mission critical andpassenger technologies to gain flight heritage andexperience before committing them to the infrastructureof other missions. Of the four Science experiments, twoare dedicated to solar physics. The two other will studythe space weather (plasma physics)The paper will provide an overview of the PROBA-2mission and spacecraft along with a description of thescientific payload and technology experiments
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