ESA and GomSpace Sign Contract for Advanced Nanosatellite to join the HERA mission
GomSpace and ESA have signed a contract to develop a 6U nanosatellite, named Juventas to join the HERA mission. The Juventas nanosatellite will perform scientific tasks and eventual land on the Didymoon asteroid. The contract value is 400.000 €.The nanosatellite will be a so called 6U nanosatellite approximately the size of a shoebox and mass of approximately 12 kilograms. It will be part of ESA’s HERA mission to a binary asteroid system, which is the first of its kind in Europe. Juventas will be the very first nanosatellite developed for deep space missions by GomSpace. In close orbit