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CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine

Milani scans Didymos

As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence probes the Didymos twin asteroid system, it will be joined by a pioneering pair of breadbox-sized ‘CubeSats’. Juventas will perform radar soundings while Milani will image the bodies in a wider range of colours than the human eye can see, prospecting the mineral makeup of individual asteroid boulders.

Eye of ESA’s asteroid mission
Reprogrammable satellite shipped to launch site

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