03/09/2026
🛰️ YODA PROJECT: MONITORING SPACE FROM SPACE
With space security high on the agenda at next week's International Space Summit in Paris, it's a fitting moment to highlight one of our flagship projects.
Awarded to HEMERIA by CNES, the YODA project aims to design and supply a demonstrator made up of two reconnaissance smallsats in geostationary orbit, now entering the AIT phase (Assembly, Integration and Testing) at our facilities.
🌌 They are being developed for the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA - Direction générale de l'armement) and the French Space Command (Commandement de l'Espace) to help protect French military satellites from suspicious or potentially hostile manoeuvres, while supporting three key objectives:
- Validate the technologies used in approaching a satellite
- Determine the proximity operations payloads
- Train the Space Command operators for operations in Space
⚙️ YODA project combines innovation and operational capabilities to address the new challenges of the space domain.