Prisma Mission Status and Perspective

Abstract

PRISMA (PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa) is an ASI (Italian Space Agency) mission based on a technology demonstrator project, aimed at the in space qualification of an innovative hyperspectral payload and at the development of new Earth Observation products and applications.In the upcoming Earth Observation European scenario PRISMA is expected to be a good opportunity for science and users community to access hyperspectral data, both to develop new applications products and to explore technological innovative contribution of hyperspectral data to earth observation, in the perspective of a future hyperspectral operational mission.This paper will report the status of the PRISMA mission after the launch was on 22 March 2019 (VEGA launcher) and will present the commissioning phase and preliminary mission exploitation plan.