Session
Session 1: The Year in Review
Abstract
HyperScout is the first smart hyperspectral imager for nanosatellites. It has been launched on the 2nd of February 2018 at 8:51 CET, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. The launch vehicle Long March 2D lifted off on schedule and the satellite was separated from the launch vehicle minutes later. Approximately after 6 hours the first contact was established by GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. HyperScout is based on a long line of development led by cosine. The project to develop, build and launch the first HyperScout was funded by ESA, with support from the Dutch, Belgian and Norwegian national space organizations: Netherlands Space Office, BELSPO and Norsk Romsenter. cosine, as the prime contractor, enlisted the help of consortium partners S&T, TU Delft, VDL and VITO. The applications for which HyperScout has been conceived for are crop water management, fire hazard monitoring, flood detection, change detection of land use and land coverage and vegetation monitoring. The aim of the demonstration mission is to assess the quality of the data that will be acquired and the consequent suitability for the intended applications. Furthermore, the basic functionalities of the instrument as well as the onboard processing in real time will be demonstrated. The demonstration is divided in three operational blocks, during which HyperScout will be operated to acquire data from invariant sites for vicarious calibration, from application sites to qualify HyperScout for all the applications it has been conceived for, and to perform software experiments to demonstrate the novel approach to overcome the bandwidth limitation on small platforms. This paper reports about the outcome of the operations performed so far in orbit, and about the preliminary results obtained from the data evaluation performed during the demonstration project.
Demonstration in Space of a Smart Hyperspectral Imager for Nanosatellites
HyperScout is the first smart hyperspectral imager for nanosatellites. It has been launched on the 2nd of February 2018 at 8:51 CET, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. The launch vehicle Long March 2D lifted off on schedule and the satellite was separated from the launch vehicle minutes later. Approximately after 6 hours the first contact was established by GomSpace in Aalborg, Denmark. HyperScout is based on a long line of development led by cosine. The project to develop, build and launch the first HyperScout was funded by ESA, with support from the Dutch, Belgian and Norwegian national space organizations: Netherlands Space Office, BELSPO and Norsk Romsenter. cosine, as the prime contractor, enlisted the help of consortium partners S&T, TU Delft, VDL and VITO. The applications for which HyperScout has been conceived for are crop water management, fire hazard monitoring, flood detection, change detection of land use and land coverage and vegetation monitoring. The aim of the demonstration mission is to assess the quality of the data that will be acquired and the consequent suitability for the intended applications. Furthermore, the basic functionalities of the instrument as well as the onboard processing in real time will be demonstrated. The demonstration is divided in three operational blocks, during which HyperScout will be operated to acquire data from invariant sites for vicarious calibration, from application sites to qualify HyperScout for all the applications it has been conceived for, and to perform software experiments to demonstrate the novel approach to overcome the bandwidth limitation on small platforms. This paper reports about the outcome of the operations performed so far in orbit, and about the preliminary results obtained from the data evaluation performed during the demonstration project.
