Moon contract signals new direction for Europe

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Contract signed that will see first UK satellite go to the Moon in 2024

There is an armada of missions - public and private - going to the Moon this decade, including ones that will take astronauts back to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo.

This is a key moment then for all parties, not least Esa which is now following a procurement model routinely practised by Nasa. Josef Aschbacher, the new director general of Esa, is determined to push Europe down this same route, and Lunar Pathfinder is his poster child. "Europe has to realise that first of all, space is extremely important for the development of a country or a region," he told me.

 

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