PRETTY (Passive REflecTomeTry and dosimetrY) is a CubeSat mission by the European Space Agency (ESA).[1][2] The primary payload of the satellite is a passive reflectometer for GNSS reflectometry measuring sea state, sea ice, and ocean currents by receiving Galileo and GPS signals reflected from Earth surface.[3] The secondary payload is a radiation monitor.[4] The satellite was launched in October 2023 on a Vega rocket.[5][6][7]

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References

  1. ^ "WMO OSCAR Satellite: PRETTY". space.oscar.wmo.int. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
  2. ^ "PRETTY". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
  3. ^ Dielacher, Andreas; Fragner, Heinrich; Koudelka, Otto (2022). "PRETTY – passive GNSS-Reflectometry for CubeSats". E & I Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik. 139 (1): 25–32. doi:10.1007/s00502-022-00993-7. ISSN 0932-383X.
  4. ^ Dielacher, A.; Fragner, H.; Koudelka, O.; Beck, P.; Wickert, J.; Cardellach, E.; Høeg, Per (2019). "The ESA Passive Reflectometry and Dosimetry (Pretty) Mission". IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. pp. 5173–5176. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898720. ISBN 978-1-5386-9154-0.
  5. ^ "ESA's PRETTY mission, a nanosatellite to monitor sea and ice from space". www.ice.csic.es. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
  6. ^ "PRETTY". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
  7. ^ "PRETTY / 58023 / 2023-155H". orbit.ing-now.com. Retrieved 2025-10-12.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRETTY_(satellite)