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Redwire Corporation, a company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it is providing a critical onboard computer system for the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Hera mission, Europe\u2019s inaugural flagship planetary defense mission. Hera is the European-led companion mission to NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which successfully impacted the binary asteroid system Didymos in September 2022 with Redwire power and navigation technology onboard. The Hera mission will provide a detailed survey of DART\u2019s impact site.<\/p>\n
Hera\u2019s onboard computer was developed by Redwire\u2019s wholly owned Belgian subsidiary, Redwire Space NV, through a contract with OHB Germany, the main industrial contractor for the mission. The onboard computer, Redwire\u2019s third generation Advanced Data and Power Management System (ADPMS-3), is designed to monitor and control other spacecraft components, including transmitting critical data to operators on the ground. Developed to meet the challenges of operating in deep space, ADPMS-3 will control all vital spacecraft operations, including power and navigation, and play a crucial role in major mission milestones such as the deployment and monitoring of ESA\u2019s two deep-space CubeSats and the spacecraft\u2019s final orbital insertion at Didymos.<\/p>\n
\u201cRedwire\u2019s third generation onboard computer, leveraging more than 25 years of flight heritage and avionics expertise, has become critical, enabling technology for today\u2019s most ambitious missions,\u201d said Erik Masure, President of Redwire Space Europe.<\/strong> \u201cWe are proud to partner with ESA for the game-changing Hera mission to advance humanity\u2019s planetary defense capabilities and the scientific understanding of asteroids.\u201d<\/p>\n The Hera mission is an exciting mission contributing to Redwire\u2019s growing portfolio of space solutions that advance scientific discovery and planetary defense efforts. Redwire provided digital sun sensors and Roll-Out Solar Array technology for NASA\u2019s DART mission. Redwire is also providing the onboard computer for ESA\u2019s Comet Interceptor mission, the first spacecraft to visit a long-period comet. Redwire\u2019s ADPMS leverages 25 years of spaceflight heritage, previously supporting ESA\u2019s Proba-2, Proba-V, and Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle missions. Hera will be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center in October 2024.<\/p>\n Click here to learn more about On-Board Computers (OBC) listed on SATNow<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Redwire Corporation, a company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it is providing a critical onboard computer system for the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Hera mission, Europe\u2019s inaugural flagship planetary defense mission. Hera is the European-led companion mission to NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which successfully impacted the binary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,120,20],"class_list":["post-6474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-on-board-computers-obc","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}