Once operational, MANTIS will join OpenConstellation, a global shared Earth observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.
The UK Space Agency contributed £2.2 million as a participating member state to the ESA InCubed initiative supporting MANTIS.
MANTIS is the first satellite to be launched under ESA InCubed, the co-funding program run by ESA Φ-lab for commercial development across the Earth observation value chain.
Open Cosmos plans to place MANTIS into orbit in 2023.
The Transporter-9 mission carrying MANTIS will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.
MANTIS hosts the Integrated Standard Imager for Microsatellites (iSIM-12U) optical payload developed by Satlantis Microsats SL.
The MANTIS satellite will host a multispectral high-resolution optical payload for Earth observation and a secondary high-performance reconfigurable processing unit designed to run artificial intelligence algorithms onboard.
Open Cosmos is the prime contractor for MANTIS and will oversee end-to-end space mission services including satellite design, payload integration, build, launch, operations, and data dissemination via the DataCosmos platform.
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency plan to launch the MANTIS satellite aboard the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission.
MANTIS completed integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 before lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The UK Space Agency contributed £2.2 million as a participating member state to the ESA InCubed initiative supporting the MANTIS mission.
Once operational, MANTIS will join OpenConstellation, a global shared Earth Observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.
MANTIS will host a multispectral, high-resolution optical payload for Earth observation.
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency plan to launch the MANTIS satellite on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission in 2023.
MANTIS completed integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ahead of lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.
MANTIS will host a multispectral, high-resolution optical payload for Earth observation.
Open Cosmos and the European Space Agency have planned to launch the MANTIS satellite aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission.
Once operational, MANTIS will join OpenConstellation, a global shared Earth observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.
MANTIS was integrated with its EXOpod Nova deployment system in Berlin prior to completing integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
Once operational, MANTIS will join OpenConstellation, a global shared Earth observation satellite infrastructure built and managed by Open Cosmos.