GOMX-5 is a low Earth orbit technology demonstration satellite under development by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Danish company GomSpace. The mission is designed to demonstrate a new 8U CubeSat platform for GomSpace, as well as an innovative maritime domain awareness payload detecting signals across UHF to X-band for maritime surveillance. The satellite also carries a radiation detector developed by Czech Technical University with ESA support.Space research overview of IEAP CTU (archived) The satellite is equipped with an electric propulsion system, developed by the French company ThrustMe, for orbit raising and end-of-life disposal in compliance with ESA's space debris mitigation policy. GOMX-5 was launched in October 2026 on Falcon 9's mission Transporter-18.
See also
List of European Space Agency programmes and missions
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