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Apophis EX (ApophisExL)
Commercial deep-space rideshare spacecraft mission to asteroid Apophis.
by ExLabs
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About Apophis EX (ApophisExL)
ExLabs' first hosted deep-space mission: an ApophisExL mothership based on the SERV platform, planned to launch in 2028 and rendezvous with asteroid Apophis around its April 2029 Earth flyby, carrying customer payloads including Chiba Institute of Technology landers. Mission design is supported in collaboration with NASA JPL; the spacecraft was reported in March 2026 to have passed a key review phase.
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