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The European Space Agency has contracted Spanish company EMXYS for the first CubeSat designed to operate on the surface of an asteroid: #DonQuijote is a shoebox-sized spacecraft that will be deployed onto the #Apophis asteroid by ESA’s #Ramses mission before the asteroid flies by Earth on 13 April 2029.

The #Apophis Encounter in 2029 - A Rare Opportunity for Planetary Science and Defense: https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/space.0505 -> this review "systematically synthesizes the scientific opportunities and planetary defense value of the 2029 Apophis flyby event": https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140792