Milani has successfully passed its Test Readiness Review, Tyvak International has announced. The craft represents two firsts: it will be the first to orbit an asteroid, Dimorphos; and it will be the ESA’s first deep-space nanosatellite.
Hera
It is a critical component of the Hera planetary defense mission and will follow on from the successful impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft on the same asteroid. The Hera mission – described as “Europe’s flagship Planetary Defender” – will perform a detailed post-impact survey and aims to help turn the asteroid deflection experiment into a well-understood planetary defense technique.
