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Pléiades Neo Overview

Mission Background

The Pléiades Neo constellation is designed to obtain:

  • Accurate, quantitative and continuous information
  • Timely, reliable and agile information
  • Precise, up-to-date and easily viewable information
  • Detailed, regular, wide coverage information
  • Fact-based, diverse, specific information
  • Wide-ranging and up-to-date information
  • Fast and accurate downloadable information
  • High level of confidence, rapidly available information

Pléiades Neo Infographic

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An overview of the Pléiades Neo mission
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Satellite Design

The Pléiades Neo programme followed the Pléiades programme satellite series, introducing advanced technologies in Earth observation.

The implementation of a reactive tasking and delivery mechanism with a tasking plan updated every 25 minutes (15 plans every day for each satellite) allows for new acquisition requests to be submitted up to 15 minutes before the plan is uploaded.

The constellation is designed to obtain high resolution imagery (30 cm resolution), new spectral bands (red-edge and deep blue, in addition to all the bands Pléiades can acquire), high revisit capacity (twice a day), largest global coverage capacity (up to 2 million km2 every day), reactive tasking and delivery (tasking plan updated every 25 minutes).

Technical Specifications
Mass920 kg
Design Lifetime10 years

Mission Operations

Data is acquired at Toulouse (France) and two Polar Stations at Inuvik (Canada) and Kiruna (Sweden).

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