Tom & Jerry is a planned European satellite mission by the French company Infinite Orbits. In August 2025 Isar Aerospace announced that it had secured a launch service agreement with the European Space Agency and the European Commission to fly the mission on its Spectrum rocket from the dedicated launch pad at the Andoya Spaceport in Norway, with launch scheduled from 2026 onwards. The agreement is part of the Flight Ticket Initiative, a joint programme of the European Commission through Horizon Europe IOD-IOV and ESA's Boost! programme, which co-funds European launch services chosen competitively to demonstrate and qualify new technologies in orbit. The mission shares its launch agreement round with the CASSINI mission developed by the Dutch company ISISpace. No launch date has been confirmed in the source.
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Mission Type (category)Robotic / Uncrewed Mission 1 Connections
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Source Isar Aerospace secures launch agreements with ESA (Isar Aerospace press release)
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1. Avio and Isar Aerospace Win ESA Flight Ticket Initiative Launch Contracts (European Spaceflight)
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the Tom & Jerry mission will involve the launch of two satellites, one a chaser and the other a target
2. Tom & Jerry (space mission) (Wikipedia)
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is a technology demonstration satellite mission
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into low Earth orbit
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is a technology demonstration satellite mission under development by the French company Infinite Orbits
View the SourceIsar Aerospace secures launch agreements with ESA (Isar Aerospace press release)
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mission by French company Infinite Orbits
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Isar Aerospace has secured two launch service agreements with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission as part of the Flight Ticket Initiative.
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