MINESPACEMISSION ZERO / APOPHIS
MINESPACE INC. / MISSION ANALYSIS / PUBLIC DESIGN STUDY

THE
ENCOUNTER.

Our mission: reach Apophis autonomously, match its heliocentric orbit, and stay beside it for the longest achievable duration.

The 2029 flyby changes Apophis’s solar orbit. Our long-duration companion objective requires an actual transfer solution, relative navigation, autonomous stationkeeping and credible lifetime budgets.

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2029SAFE CLOSE APPROACH · JPL REFERENCESOURCE / NASA–JPL CAD ↗
01 / THE MISSION IN MOTION

DON’T WATCH THE ASTEROID.
FOLLOW IT.

Experience our autonomous companion-flight objective: rendezvous, velocity matching, stand-off acquisition and long-duration formation keeping alongside Apophis.

ENTER THE MISSION SIMULATION ILLUSTRATIVE VISUALIZATION / NOT AN APPROVED FLIGHT TRAJECTORY
01 / WINDOW STUDYEARTH-CENTERED NOMINAL MODEL

Follow the flyby.

Explore a two-body hyperbolic reconstruction constrained at closest approach by the JPL CAD example record. The model is not a full planetary ephemeris.

T − 24 HCLOSEST APPROACHT + 24 H
02 / MISSION ARCHITECTURECONCEPT COMPARISON · NO VEHICLE SELECTED

One mission. Multiple engineering paths.

The company mission objective is autonomous long-duration companion flight. Compare supporting observation approaches and examine the evidence needed before the spacecraft flight profile can be represented as executable.

STUDY 01 / OBSERVATIONENGINEERING DEFINITION

MISSION DRIVERS

EVIDENCE REQUIRED

03 / PROOF BEFORE FLIGHTPUBLIC WORKSTREAM DEFINITIONS

Six disciplines.
One evidence chain.

MISSION ZERO / A REAL MINESPACE INC. MISSION

BUILD WHAT
COMES NEXT.

MISSION COLLABORATION ↗RETURN TO THE ENCOUNTER ↗
SIMULATED VIEW AND IDEALIZED TWO-BODY MODEL. THIS PAGE DOES NOT CLAIM A COMPLETED FLIGHT, APPROVED SPACECRAFT DESIGN, OR RENDEZVOUS WITH APOPHIS.