The contract value for the Juventas nanosatellite is 400,000 €.
Brno University of Technology from the Czech Republic and Astronika from Poland will deliver the radar instrument for Juventas.
GMV Innovating Solutions from Romania will lead the guidance, navigation, and control subsystem for Juventas.
Dr. Ian Carnelli from ESA stated that the addition of Juventas will allow for additional bonus science alongside the HERA mothership.
Juventas is the first nanosatellite developed for deep space missions by GomSpace.
Juventas will perform scientific tasks and will eventually land on the Didymoon asteroid.
ESA and GomSpace have signed a contract to develop a 6U nanosatellite named Juventas for the HERA mission.
The Juventas science team includes collaborators from the Royal Observatory of Belgium and University of Grenoble Alpes.
The Preliminary Design Phase of Juventas and its interfaces with the mothership will be presented at ESA's Space19+ meeting by the end of 2019.
The Juventas nanosatellite will be approximately the size of a shoebox and have a mass of approximately 12 kilograms.