GomSpace's subsidiary in Luxembourg and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a development contract valued at EUR 1,500,000 for the continued development of GomSpace's mission control system called HOOP by GomSpace Luxembourg SARL. The development of the Hands-Off Operations Platform (HOOP) to enable autonomous satellite operations for single satellites and constellations was initiated in 2018. Today, HOOP is fully flight proven and operationally deployed in customer projects.

The new contract, which will be implemented from January 2024 until November 2025, will enable HOOP to support multiple increasingly complex missions that includes manoeuvring, including for collision avoidance, and that can integrate heterogenous satellite fleets.