Cohort: space exploration contract for an AIM company – impressive!
Cohort, the AIM quoted independent technology group has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SEA, has signed a two year, €5m contract to supply Remote Interface Units (RIUs) for the BepiColombo spacecraft mission to explore the planet Mercury – sounds mighty impressive!
The BepiColombo mission, a joint project of ESA and JAXA, the European and Japanese Space Agencies, will study and understand the composition, geophysics, atmosphere, magnetosphere and history of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner Solar System.
The RIUs will be designed to acquire critical sensor data and telemetry. They will also drive the thrusters that control both the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, which will map the planet, and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, which will investigate the plant’s magnetosphere.
Definitely one for Cohort to dine out on!