May 7, 2020 - Today we celebrate PROBA-V’s seventh birthday.
ESA's small satellite was launched on the night of May 6-7, 2013 from Kourou, French Guyana to serve the global land surface community with high-quality vegetation observations.

To celebrate its last 'operational' birthday we gathered a selection of best-of satellite images, interesting user quotes and memorable moments shared by key Earth Observation people closely associated in the SPOT-VEGETATION and PROBA-V missions. But that's not all!

Additionally, in these unprecedented times in which we are forced to stay, work, and communicate from home, we also created a series of beautiful virtual backgrounds for you to use in your online meeting platforms such as Teams, Zoom, ... 

On 30 June 2020, PROBA-V will perform its last operational observations and enter an experimental phase until October 30, 2021. Click here to find out more about the operational and experimental actions still to come.