GomSpace to design world’s first stand-alone nanosatellite asteroid rendezvous mission
GomSpace’s subsidiary in Luxembourg and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract of EUR 400.000 for the Phase A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) mission. Under the contract GomSpace will be in charge of preliminary design of the mission, spacecraft and implementation planning. A “12U” CubeSat spacecraft configuration is envisioned for the mission, packing in beyond state-of-the-art advancements in miniaturised technologies including communication, instrumentation, electric propulsion and operational autonomy to be demonstrated in the