Ramses • ESA’s Mission to Rendezvous with Asteroid Apophis 21.10.25 • Friday the 13th of April 2029 will be our lucky day. Apophis, a 375-metre-wide asteroid, will safely pass Earth at a distance of less than 32 000 kilometres. For a few hours, Apophis will be closer than satellites in geostationary orbit and visible to the naked eye from Europe and Africa. Space agencies have sent a number of spacecraft to asteroids, but we have never had a mission at an asteroid as it sweeps past a planet. Thi