GomSpace and OHB sign Preliminary Authority to Proceed (PATP) to start implement ESA HERA Inter Satellite Link (ISL)
GomSpace Luxembourg s.a.r.l. and the space technology company OHB have signed a contract for the Inter Satellite Link system for the ESA HERA mission to be delivered in June 2022. The PATP value is EUR 500,000. The ESA HERA mission consists of one mother-spacecraft developed by OHB and two CubeSats. GomSpace provides one of the CubeSats (Juventas) as well as the Inter-satellite link system (ISL) between the three spacecrafts enabling the communication between the spacecrafts as well as communication to Earth. The ESA HERA mission is a planetary defense mission into deep space to be