H3 | RAMSES
To Be Determined
L - -- : -- : -- : --
European Space Agency mission to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis before its close fly-by of Earth.
Adding launch on H3 per a technical presentation at IAC 2024, pending official confirmation of the JAXA contribution. Backup launch vehicles are Ariane 62 and Falcon 9.
The H3 Launch Vehicle is an expendable launch system in development in Japan. H3 rockets are liquid-propellant rockets with strap-on solid rocket boosters and are planned to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and the JAXA have been responsible for the design, manufacture, and operation of the H3.
See DetailsMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group. MHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.
INFO WIKI
ESA has awarded a contract for the second CubeSat for its Ramses mission, which will study asteroid Apophis as it passes within 32,000 kilometres of Earth. The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses) mission was first announced in …
From the ESA Blogs.
From the ESA Blogs.
The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.
The European Space Agency has awarded OHB Italia an initial contract worth €63 million to develop the Ramses mission, which will study an asteroid during its close approach to Earth. In April 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass within 32,…
A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Unknown classified payload for the Russian military.
Carried 6 satellites to Sun-synchronous orbit, including commercial Earth observation satellites Taijing-3-04 & Taijing-4-02A: * Taijing-3-04 * T…
A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Chinese communication geostationary satellite for unknown purposes.
4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.
RISAT-1B is the third in the series of radar imaging RISAT-1 satellites of ISRO using an active C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), providing all-…
Synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS.
6 satellites from satellite manufacturer SpaceTY, including 3 multi-spectral Earth observation satellites and 3 technology demonstration satellites f…