BackForward Satellite: FLEX 

Satellite details
Acronym FLEX
Full name FLuorescence EXplorer
Satellite Description
  • Single flight unit of the FLEX programme.
  • Main mission: global maps of vegetation fluorescence to improve understanding of how much carbon is stored in plants and their role in the carbon and water cycles.
  • Based on a very high-spectral resolution imaging spectrometer that allows the decoupling of the weak fluorescence signal from the reflected sunlight background.
Mass at launch Dry mass
Power
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Data access information
  • TBD.
Orbit Sunsynchronous orbit Altitude 800 km
ECT 10:00 desc

 

Space agency ESA
Status Planned
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch ≥2024 EOL ≥2027
Last update: 2020-08-21
Associated satellite programme and related satellites

Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational , blue tag : future

Satellite Payload

All known Instruments flying on FLEX

Acronym Full name
FLORIS FLuORescence Imaging Spectrometer
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