Foras Promineo ("Foras Promineo")

Education mission where the payload is a dynamic game that will inspire, engage, and educate the public.

Education mission where the payload is a dynamic game that will inspire, engage, and educate the public. The gameplay is in the style of a robotics competition game, with a robotic arm that must capture and place balls into targets as quickly and accurately as possible. The arm acts autonomously based on programs that can be submitted by the public for upload to the payload computer.

The goal of the Foras Promineo (Latin for "outreach") mission is to inspire engage and educate the public in space and space technology through gameplay on a space based platform. The satellite carries a game with a robotic arm that is able to manipulate game pieces. the robotic arm will play games autonomously using uploaded code provided by operators and students worldwide or it can be controlled in real time during ground station contacts.