Astrium presents study for European lunar landing in 2019
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The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander firing engines
The ESA Lunar Lander deploying landing legs
The ESA Lunar Lander jettisoning transfer vehicle
The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander firing engines
The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander making lunar orbit insertion burn
The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander navigating by lunar landmarks
The ESA Lunar Lander in hazard avoidance mode
The ESA Lunar Lander in final descent
The ESA Lunar Lander in final descent
The ESA Lunar Lander deploying antennas and camera
The ESA Lunar Lander deploying experiments
The ESA Lunar Lander making lunar orbit insertion burn
Engineering diagram of the ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander
The ESA Lunar Lander
Article Summary
This week, the European space technology company Astrium completed its Phase B1 study of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Lunar Landing Project. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the mission to land a spacecraft on the south pole of the Moon in 2019. That spacecraft would test new technologies, and explore an area of the lunar surface that scientists believe may contain deposits of ice in the permanently shadowed craters.
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