Created: 2024-07-26
Updated: 2025-01-08
Company - DEIMOS Engineering and Systems
Product/Service
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Transport Service (Re-Entry)
- Fields
- Space Capsule
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2027
DRACO (Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object)
- Deimos has signed a first contract worth €3 million for the start of the development of the satellite. The Draco mission is a small and fast design-to-launch Space Safety mission, with the launch scheduled for 2027.
- ESA has awarded €17M ($19M) to space technology firm Deimos to build an experimental satellite whose mission is to die a fiery death.
- The Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object mission, or DRACO, will be the first demo of a fully controlled break-up during its return to Earth and beam data to the ground throughout its demise.
- A European consortium led by Deimos will build a 150-kg satellite that will include heat-resistant thermometers and cameras to monitor the sat’s demise up until the point of its expected fragmentation at an altitude of about 70 km. At that point, the spacecraft will release a re-entry capsule that will descend on a parachute, transmitting the collected data.
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