Welcome back, this time from day one of ILA 2026 in Berlin, where Torsten Kriening sits down with Marco Esposito, Managing Director of cosine, on what he calls a very special day.
And for good reason. cosine has just signed a contract to deliver a hyperspectral camera for ESA’s RAMSES mission – the rendezvous with asteroid Apophis as it makes its exceptionally close pass by Earth in 2029, a genuinely once-in-a-generation event.
Marco shares how a science-driven mandate from Italy’s INAF, backed by the trust of the Italian Space Agency and ESA, came together at remarkable speed to make sure no one misses this rare window. But that’s only part of the story. Since we last spoke at the company’s 25th anniversary, cosine has become a truly European company – headquartered in the Netherlands, with operations in Italy and here in Berlin. Marco walks us through how the three sites are specializing and converging: larger 150 kg-class payloads and full turnkey imaging solutions in the Netherlands, smart and compact cameras in Italy, and X-ray optics in Germany.
He also reveals a second contract signed live at the show – multispectral thermal cameras for the Canary Islands monitoring constellation – and digs into one of the field’s real bottlenecks: the sheer flood of hyperspectral data, and why putting intelligence at the edge, on board and on the ground, is the key to making it usable. High-tech, deeply human, and built to protect both people and the planet. Press play.
