Tyvak International Completes Test Readiness Review of the Milani Nano Satellite
15 Dezembro 2023 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
The nanosatellite designed by Tyvak
International, Terran Orbital’s international arm, will support the
European Space Agency’s Hera Mission
Tyvak International, European leader in small satellite
solutions, today announced together with its project partners the
successful achievement of Test Readiness Review of the Milani
spacecraft. A critical component of the Hera planetary defense
mission, Milani will be the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first
deep-space nanosatellite. Milani will also be the first
nanosatellite ever to orbit an asteroid. Tyvak International is
responsible for Milani’s design, build, and mission operations. In
this exploration, Tyvak International is joined by an excellent
consortium of European industries and research centers from
Finland, Czech Republic, and Italy.
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Milani is a CubeSat developed by Tyvak
International SRL, devoted to the visual inspection and dust
detection of Didymos asteroid following DART impact. More info
under https://tyvak.eu/missions/milani/ (Photo: Business Wire)
As part of the world’s first test of asteroid deflection,
following the successful impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft on
asteroid Dimorphos, Hera will perform a detailed post-impact survey
turning the experiment into a well-understood and repeatable
planetary defense technique. To achieve its objectives Hera will be
utilizing new technologies from autonomous navigation around an
asteroid to low-gravity proximity operations. Hera will be
humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system
and Europe’s flagship Planetary Defender.
Milani, named after Professor Andrea Milani, the pioneer of
asteroid risk analysis who came up with the original
double-spacecraft Don Quijote mission concept from which the
DART-Hera missions were derived, is a companion nanosatellite of
Hera, carried by the mothercraft along the journey to Didymos, and
ultimately released in its proximity. Milani’s instruments are the
ASPECT hyperspectral imager (by VTT, Finland), the VISTA (Volatile
In-Situ Thermogravimetre Analyser) dust detector, and the
Navigation Camera developed by Tyvak International with the
collaboration of Politecnico di Milano for Image Processing
algorithms. Finally, laser reflectors (by INFN, Italy) will enable
unprecedented gravity field measurements of the asteroid coupled
with Hera’s laser range finder.
Tyvak International is part of the Terran Orbital Corporation
(NYSE: LLAP) (“Terran Orbital” or the “Company”), a global leader
in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and
defense industries. “Terran Orbital is proud of Tyvak
International’s successful achievement of the Test Readiness
Review,” said Terran Orbital Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief
Executive Officer Marc Bell. “We are honored by the trust placed in
Tyvak International by ESA, and we look forward to continuing to
design, build, deliver, and operate cutting-edge satellite
solutions for missions, like Hera Mission.”
“We’ve always been proud to be part of such a challenging
mission and the Test Readiness Review is a crucial milestone for
the program,” said Tyvak International’s VP of Programs and Milani
Program Manager Margherita Cardi. “In the last months we assembled
the satellite and saw it taking shape day after day; It was a very
exciting and emotional phase for me and the whole team.”
“Admiring the Milani spacecraft fully integrated brings lots of
emotions that pay off the tens of thousands of hours of cutting
edge engineering efforts,” said ESA Hera Project Manager Ian
Carnelli. “Tyvak International has proved unprecedented commitment
to bring this project from blueprints to reality, we can’t wait for
the environmental test campaign to be completed and start testing
with the Hera spacecraft. One step closer to Didymos.”
The next main step for Milani Satellite is the execution of the
Environmental Test Campaign at Laboratorio di Qualifica Spaziale of
CIRA (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali, Capua, Italy), after
which it will return to Tyvak for the last tests and verification.
Milani will be delivered to ESA in early 2024, to support the Hera
electromagnetic compatibility test campaign and extensive System
Validation Tests (SVTs), involving the mission ground segment as
well.
About Tyvak International
Tyvak International, a Terran Orbital Corporation, is a leading
European nano and microsatellite provider, based in Torino, Italy.
A front runner in miniaturization and specialized in execution and
delivery, Tyvak International is the Prime contractor of European
Space Agency for the Milani mission, coordinating a team of 12
entities, universities, research centers, and enterprises in Italy
and across all Europe. Learn more at www.tyvak.eu.
About Terran Orbital
Terran Orbital is a leading manufacturer of satellite products
primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries. Terran
Orbital provides end-to-end satellite solutions by combining
satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations,
and on-orbit support to meet the needs of the most demanding
military, civil, and commercial customers. Learn more at
www.terranorbital.com.
Disclaimer: Please note that the view expressed herein can in no
way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Space
Agency.
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