PROBA-V, or PROBA-Vegetation (the V standing for vegetation and not the Roman numeral for 5), is a satellite in the European Space Agency's PROBA series.

PROBA-V is a small satellite, assuring the succession of the Vegetation instruments[2] on board the French SPOT-4 and SPOT-5 Earth observation missions.

[3] PROBA-V and its onboard instruments have been developed and built by QinetiQ Space N.V and subcontractors for the Directorate of TEChnology (DTEC) of ESA.

After this handover, the Earth Observation Directorate of ESA will manage the satellite operations, instrument data collection and distribution of the traditional Vegetation products to the users.

The management of the new, higher resolution products will be assured by the Space and Aeronautics department of the Belgian Science Policy Office.

This, so called full, free and open data policy, was approved by the Programme Board for Earth Observation (PBEO) of ESA on 25 September 2013.

Depending on the kind of user (scientific, commercial, ...) and the kind of higher resolution product (customised or not, guaranteed in time delivery or not, ...) a fee has to be paid for certain other, higher resolution products of PROBA-V.[7] On 18 March 2019, Bpost released a souvenir sheet of 5 stamps honouring Belgian space activities, among which PROBA-V's own stamp representing the country's contribution in Earth observation.