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ESA Awards Contract for Probe That Will Land on Earth-Skimming Asteroid - European Spaceflight

Summary by European Spaceflight
Credit: ESA 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 July 2024 and is being managed under ESA’s Space Safety Programme. The mission will consist of one primary probe and two CubeSats. Together, the satellites will study the 375-metre asteroid’s compos…
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European Spaceflight broke the news in on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
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