After launching over a dozen communications and reconnaissance satellites into space in part for military purposes, Israel is now working on a satellite for a very different purpose – monitoring crops. The VENµS (Vegetation and Environment Monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite) is a cooperation between Israel and France on a satellite using a superspectral sensor (a sensor that can pick up images across wavelengths that are outside the visible range of the human eye), to monitor agricultural crops. The satellite is ultra-lightweight and, alongside communications satellite, Amos 6, will be one of two Israeli civilian satellites to be launched into space in 2015. To read more, click HERE.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd July 2014 - 11:01
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