CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -PRISMA is the 600th satellite to be orbited by Arianespace and the eigth for Italian institutions or operators.

Detailed explanation-2: – The PRISMA project is conceived as a pre-operational and technology demonstrator mission, focused on the development and delivery of hyperspectral products and the qualification of the hyperspectral payload in space.

Detailed explanation-3: -The design is based on a pushbroom sensor type observation concept providing hyperspectral imagery (  250 bands) at a spatial resolution of 30 m on a swath of 30 km. The spectral resolution is better than 12 nm in a spectral range of 400-2500 nm (VNIR and SWIR regions).

Detailed explanation-4: -PRISMA’s full program cost 126 million Eur. It will produce significant industrial and scientific benefits for the national community and around the planet. “PRISMA has brought into orbit the Italian ability ‘to make Space’.