Juventas, produced for ESA by GOMspace in Luxembourg will make the first radar probe within an asteroid. while Milani, produced for ESA by Tyvak International in Italy, will perform multispectral mineral prospecting.

The commissioning took place from ESA’s ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt in Germany, linked in turn to ESEC, the European Space Security and Education Centre, at Redu in Belgium. This site hosts Hera’s CubeSat Mission Operations Centre, from where the CubeSats will be overseen once they are flying freely in space.