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Proba-V equipped for radiation census of space

Planned to be launched next year, ESA's Proba-V mission will perform daily tracking of global vegetation growth. At the same time, the small satellite will also monitor the space environment with a compact radiation instrument.
Proba-V's Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) will record the charge, energy and angle of incoming charged particles along a wide range of energies across a 50° field-of-view.
Space might be a vacuum but it is far from empty: particles of different energies and charges are thrown off by the Sun, arrive from deep space or are captured and accelerated within radiation belts of Earth's magnetic field. 
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Wide-eyed Proba-V will track global vegetation daily

The small but powerful camera of ESA's Proba-V mission can fit on a single laboratory table for testing. But when it reaches orbit, this compact sensor will deliver a daily overview of virtually all vegetation growth across Earth.
Daily global monitoring is an ambitious enough goal for a full-sized mission, but Proba is ESA's smallest satellite platform - smaller than a cubic metre.
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