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IOSHEXA is a spacecraft developed to have highly cost-effective access to space to perform a wide variety of operations. Thanks to SAB’s heritage in the development of adapters for Rideshare and PiggyBack missions, IOSHEXA takes advantage of the launcher structure in a way that the launch capacity for such structure is included in the baseline services already being provided by the Launcher Provider.
Moreover, IOSHEXA design is highly modular and can be adapted to many different mission scenarios, granting the capability to perform a broad assortment of in-orbit services which are becoming increasingly popular in the new space market, while having the possibility to deploy smallsat passengers on custom orbits selected by the customers.
A particular focus Is devoted to active debris removal. Accommodating space debris removal systems on IOSHEXA allows it to take measures now and in the future to conserve a space debris environment within tolerable risk levels, particularly in Low Earth Orbit regions.
The demonstration mission is focused on active debris removal of a dead satellite in the sun-synchronous orbit at 800 km altitude, with the additional task of deploying Cubesats at customers selected orbits along its way to the debris.
