![]() ![]() ![]() Once Moonlight is in place, companies could create new services in industries such as education, media and entertainment – as well as inspiring young people to study science, technology, engineering and maths, which creates a highly qualified future workforce. Science missions using Moonlight will be able to live stream more high-quality video than would be possible without it, increasing the volumes of data and the speed of transfer and thus enabling better science to be done. Moonlight will improve the accuracy of its landing, and enable access to areas out of sight of the Gateway. Using Moonlight means the lander will not have to only rely on a line-of-sight connection with the Gateway. The Lunar Pathfinder will also include a navigation payload demonstrator, which will allow positioning in lunar orbit using GPS and Galileo systems for the first time, and is due to launch in 2025.Īrtist’s impression of the European Large Logistics LanderĮSA’s European Large Logistics Lander – a lunar lander that could be used to supply the proposed lunar village or deliver scientific missions to the Moon’s surface – is being designed so that it can benefit from the Moonlight constellation for telecommunications and navigation. ![]() In cooperation with ESA and other partners, NASA intends to build the lunar Gateway – an outpost in orbit around the Moon that will serve as the staging point for both robotic and crewed exploration of the lunar south pole.ĮSA is constructing the European Service Modules that will power all Artemis Orion spacecraft to the Moon and back, as well as a habitat and refuelling elements for Gateway plus a communications module that will pave the way for Moonlight.ĮSA has already initiated the Lunar Pathfinder project to provide initial communications services to early lunar missions, which will also help to prepare for the next stage with Moonlight. NASA’s Artemis programme plans to return humans to the Moon. On 19 September, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson signed a joint statement on lunar exploration cooperation at the International Astronautical Congress in Paris. ESA is going to the Moon together with its international partners. ![]()
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