{"id":110920,"date":"2025-05-18T05:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110920\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T05:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:36:14","slug":"start-up-company-in-spain-to-build-satellite-that-will-land-on-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110920\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-up company in Spain to build satellite that will land on asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A SPANISH start-up company will design and build a satellite to land on an asteroid that will fly close to Earth in 2029.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Elche firm Emxys has been chosen by the European Space Agency and will construct the satellite within its facilities on the Science Park of the Miguel Hernandez University.<\/p>\n<p>CubeSat will be released by the Ramses spacecraft a few kilometres from the asteroid called Apophis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-413245 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Jose-Antonio-Carrasco-490x368.png\"  data-\/><strong>EMXYS BOSS, JOSE ANTONIO CARRASCO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will land on its surface and become one of the first European crafts to achieve such a task.<\/p>\n<p>CubeSat will carry out detailed observations of Apophis, both in its approach phase and at landing.<\/p>\n<p>It hopes to glean important information about the structure and dynamics of near-Earth asteroids, which will help plan future planetary defence missions.<\/p>\n<p>Emxys CEO, Jose Antonio Carrasco, described the mission as a \u2018milestone\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking part in such a project to observe one of the closest encounters of a potentially dangerous asteroid is a first-rate scientific and technological challenge,\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n<p>The Type S asteroid is approximately 375 metres in diameter and has a mass of 20 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered in 2004 and though potentially very dangerous, there is no risk of any impact for at least a century.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that on April 13, 2029, Apophis will pass within 31,600 kms of the Earth\u2019s surface, which is actually closer than many satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The Ramses mission has been developed to monitor the asteroid during its approach to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It will look at how the tidal pull generated by Earth\u2019s gravity will affect Apophis in terms of structure, its surface and orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will include a full analysis before and after the close flyby, using a main probe equipped with optical instrumentation, two auxiliary CubeSats, and infrared spectroscopy to create a 3D map of the asteroid via light beams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SPANISH start-up company will design and build a satellite to land on an asteroid that will fly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[50329,50330,50331,50332,50333,50334,2000,299,18104,8626,104,53,18106],"class_list":{"0":"post-110920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-alicante-province","9":"tag-apophis-asteroid","10":"tag-costa-blanca","11":"tag-cubesat","12":"tag-elche","13":"tag-emxys","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-news-spain","17":"tag-newspaper","18":"tag-spain","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-the-olive-press"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114527219697606237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}