Redwire Enabling ESA’s First Planetary Defense Mission with Cutting-Edge Onboard Computer System
02 10월 2024 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space
infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced
today that it is providing a critical onboard computer system for
the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, Europe’s inaugural
flagship planetary defense mission. Hera is the European-led
companion mission to NASA’s 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’s impact site.
Hera’s onboard computer was developed by Redwire’s wholly owned
Belgian subsidiary, Redwire Space NV, through a contract with OHB
Germany, the main industrial contractor for the mission. The
onboard computer, Redwire’s 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’s two deep-space CubeSats and the
spacecraft’s final orbital insertion at Didymos.
“Redwire’s third generation onboard computer, leveraging more
than 25 years of flight heritage and avionics expertise, has become
critical, enabling technology for today’s most ambitious missions,”
said Erik Masure, President of Redwire Space Europe. “We are proud
to partner with ESA for the game-changing Hera mission to advance
humanity’s planetary defense capabilities and the scientific
understanding of asteroids.”
The Hera mission is an exciting mission contributing to
Redwire’s 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’s DART mission. Redwire is also providing the onboard
computer for ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission, the first spacecraft
to visit a long-period comet. Redwire’s ADPMS leverages 25 years of
spaceflight heritage, previously supporting ESA’s 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.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation (NYSE:RDW) is a global space infrastructure
and innovation company enabling civil, commercial, and national
security programs. Redwire’s proven and reliable capabilities
include avionics, sensors, power solutions, critical structures,
mechanisms, radio frequency systems, platforms, missions, and
microgravity payloads. Redwire combines decades of flight heritage
and proven experience with an agile and innovative culture.
Redwire’s approximately 700 employees working from 16 facilities
located throughout the United States and Europe are committed to
building a bold future in space for humanity, pushing the envelope
of discovery and science while creating a better world on Earth.
For more information, please visit redwirespace.com.
Disclaimer: The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to
reflect the official opinion of the European Space Agency
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