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Exploration Laboratories received a $1,900,000 Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) from SpaceWERX to accelerate work on technology to autonomously capture space objects.
Exploration Labs is planning a 2028 mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis before its 2029 Earth flyby.
Space Exploration and Resource Vehicle (SERV) is Exploration Labs’ spacecraft designed to host payloads with a mass as high as 30 metric tons in its fully stacked configuration.
Exploration Labs intends to deposit three cubesats into Apophis’ orbit during its planned 2028 mission.
Exploration Labs received a $1,700,000 SpaceWERX Small Business Innovation Research contract in 2023 for technology related to autonomous capture and acquisition of space objects.
Keiko Nakamura is Exploration Labs’ science advisor and served nearly 20 years at NASA, including roles as a co-investigator on the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx asteroid missions.