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Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite is a near polar Sun-synchronous orbit microsatellite. It is a joint project of the Israeli Space Agency and CNES. The project was signed upon in April 2005 and was launched on the 2nd... Wikipedia
Launch date: August 1, 2017 at 9:58 PM EDT
Cost: 33 million USD (2013)
Manufacturers: CNES, Israel Aerospace Industries, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Launch site: Guiana Space Centre
Inclination: 98.27 degrees
Launch mass: 265 kilograms (584 lb) (wet mass, of which 23 kg are fuel)
Mission duration: 4.5 years
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