Romanian and Polish AROBS teams selected by the European Space Agency for CRIMSON project

AROBS Polska and Romania's AROBS Engineering have been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Generic Low Earth Orbit Close Proximity Operations Control Unit development project, known as CRIMSON. Both companies are part of the AROBS Group, the largest technology company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

The project, approved in September 2024, is funded by ESA as part of its Core Activities for Clean Space under the COSMIC initiative within the Agency’s Space Safety Program, Period 2. It addresses a specific need that has been identified for future Active Debris Removal (ADR) and In-Orbit Servicing (IOS) missions for a qualified control unit capable of interfacing with several sensors and imagers and with sufficient processing power and memory capacity to perform a variety of critical high-data rate functions, including image processing, relative navigation, and robotics control, as well as supporting functions such as image compression.