First switch on for ESA-JAXA Ramses asteroid mission
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) planetary defence spacecraft Ramses has been launched for the first time. “For the first time, we were able to supply power to Ramses’ on-board computer along with its subsystems integrated into the spacecraft’s body,” he explained [...]
OHB has activated a probe that ESA and JAXA intend to send to a near-Earth asteroid in early 2028. The mission is for planetary defense.
The joint ESA-JAXA mission Ramses has reached an important technical milestone. In Milan, the on-board computer and several already installed subsystems were for the first time supplied with electricity and tested functionally. This marks the start of the integrated system tests, which are under unusually tight time pressure due to the fixed Apophis fly-by in April 2029. Milan (Italy). The Ramses spacecraft is [...] The post Apophis mission: Sys…
First switch on for ESA-JAXA Ramses asteroid mission
The European Space Agency’s and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Ramses planetary defence spacecraft has been turned on for the first time by its prime contractor – marking a major milestone in its time-critical development schedule.
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