The PRISMA mission

PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) is an innovative Italian Earth Observation mission using a Hyperspectral/Panchromatic instrument based on a pushbroom scanning technique. The PRISMA mission development is completely funded by ASI (Italian Space Agency) and includes the system development program and the related applications and research activities. The system program is in the development phase (ECSS standard C/D phase) in the framework of a contract signed between ASI and an Italian Industries Consortium, including also the system on orbit commissioning. The launch is planned for the beginning of 2018.