Company

European Space Agency (ESA)

Europe · named on public Moon flights

ESA’s PROSPECT package is publicly tied to Intuitive Machines IM-4 (NASA CP-22) as a lunar resource / volatile prospecting instrument suite. ESA also publishes Argonaut, a large European cargo lander class for lunar surface logistics, public program path, flight day unnamed here.

Hardware

MoonLIGHT laser retroreflector (ESA)

Hardware · MoonLIGHT is ESA's next laser retroreflector. · IM-3 Trinity

PROSPECT resource prospecting package (ESA)

Hardware · ESA PROSPECT multi-function drill/sample/analysis package for polar volatiles (water/oxygen path) on IM-4 / CP-22 Mons Mouton. · IM-4

PITMS

Hardware · PITMS is an ion-trap mass spectrometer from NASA Goddard, ESA, and the Open University. · Peregrine Mission One

Lunar Pathfinder

Hardware · Lunar Pathfinder is ESA's communications relay satellite, built by SSTL and funded with the UK Space Agency. · Blue Ghost Mission 2

LandCam-X

Hardware · LandCam-X is an ESA landing camera on Griffin-1, built with OIP Sensor Systems. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II)

International payloads (hosted)

Hardware · Hosted international instruments reported on CE-6 stack. · Chang'e-6

NILS

Hardware · ESA-funded NILS (Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface) built by Swedish IRF. · Chang'e-6

Lunar I-Hab

Module · Lunar I-Hab is the Gateway habitation module from ESA and Thales Alenia Space. · Gateway PPE + HALO

Lunar View (ESPRIT refueling module)

Module · ESA's Lunar View, formerly the ESPRIT Refueling Module, was planned as Gateway propellant resupply, cargo storage and observation windows on Artemis V. · Artemis V

MAGPIE

Hardware · ESA’s first lunar rover. · ispace Mission 4 polar lander

LEIA

Hardware · 3D LiDAR hazard detection and avoidance for Argonaut LDE landing under OHB procurement. · Argonaut Mission 1 (ArgoNET)

Jobs

MoonLIGHT laser retroreflector (ESA)

MoonLIGHT is ESA's next laser retroreflector. · IM-3 Trinity · science.nasa.gov

ESA Moonlight LCNS constellation (planned)

ESA Moonlight Lunar Communications and Navigation Services constellation is future enable for commercial lander PNT/comms. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · Blue Ghost Mission 2 · IM-3 Trinity · esa.int

PROSPECT resource prospecting package (ESA)

ESA PROSPECT multi-function drill/sample/analysis package for polar volatiles (water/oxygen path) on IM-4 / CP-22 Mons Mouton. · IM-4 · science.nasa.gov

HALO lunar communications (ESA)

ESA supplies a lunar communications system on HALO for high-rate links between the lunar surface and Gateway. · Gateway PPE + HALO · nasa.gov

Cargo

Peregrine Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer

PITMS is an ion-trap mass spectrometer from NASA Goddard, ESA, and the Open University. · Peregrine Mission One · 2024-01-08

International payloads (hosted)

Hosted international instruments reported on CE-6 stack. · Chang'e-6 · 2024-05-03

Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface

ESA-funded NILS (Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface) built by Swedish IRF. · Chang'e-6 · 2024-05-03

LandCam-X (ESA / OIP / LSS)

LandCam-X is an ESA landing camera on Griffin-1, built with OIP Sensor Systems. · Griffin-1 (Moon Base II) · NET late 2026

Lunar Pathfinder

Lunar Pathfinder is ESA's communications relay satellite, built by SSTL and funded with the UK Space Agency. · Blue Ghost Mission 2 · NET 2027

MoonLIGHT Pointing Actuator (MPAc)

MoonLIGHT, the Moon Laser Instrumentation for General relativity High accuracy Test, is ESA's next-generation laser retroreflector, delivered on IM-3 with its MoonLIGHT Pointing Actuator. · IM-3 Trinity · NET Q1 2027

Package for Resource Observation and in-Situ Prospecting for Exploration, Commercial exploitation and Transportation

ESA's PROSPECT, the Package for Resource Observation and In-Situ Prospecting for Exploration, Commercial Exploitation and Transportation, drills into the surface at Mons Mouton on IM-4 and images, heats, samples and analyses what it pulls up, looking for lunar ice and oxygen. · IM-4 · NET ~2027

Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration

ESA’s first lunar rover. · ispace Mission 4 polar lander · NET 2029

LEIA 3D LiDAR hazard detection (MDA Space UK / OHB PATP)

3D LiDAR hazard detection and avoidance for Argonaut LDE landing under OHB procurement. · Argonaut Mission 1 (ArgoNET) · NET ~2030-2031

Flights

Artemis I2022-11-16 · First integrated Artemis flight test: uncrewed SLS Block 1 + Orion.

Chang'e-62024-05-03 · CNSA national far-side lunar sample-return via Queqiao-2 relay.

Artemis II2026-04-01 · First crewed Artemis flight: SLS + Orion lunar flyby.

Griffin-1 (Moon Base II)NET late 2026 · Astrobotic / Voyager Lunar Systems Griffin Mission One, NASA Moon Base II.

Blue Ghost Mission 2NET 2027 · Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 2 (CS-3 ~$112M, charter-bg2): planned far-side dual-stack (Blue Ghost stacked on Elytra Dark + ESA Lunar Pathfinder).

IM-3 TrinityNET Q1 2027 · Intuitive Machines IM-3 (CLPS CP-11): Nova-C Trinity, NASA Moon Base III.

IM-4NET ~2027 · Six NASA science payloads to Mons Mouton / south polar highlands.

Artemis IIINET late 2027 · NASA: Artemis III is a 2027 crewed demonstration in low Earth orbit.

Artemis IVNET early 2028 · NASA: Artemis IV is the first planned crewed south-polar landing, early 2028.

Artemis VNET late 2028 · NASA: Artemis V is the second planned crewed south-polar landing, late 2028, when lunar-base surface work begins.

ispace Mission 4 polar landerNET 2029 · ispace Japan polar landing, currently scheduled 2029, on the ULTRA lander line (same ULTRA design used on Mission 3).

Argonaut Mission 1 (ArgoNET)NET ~2030-2031 · ESA Argonaut Lunar Descent Element (LDE) is Europe's cargo lander transport element, primed by Thales Alenia Space Italy with Thales Alenia Space France, Thales Alenia Space UK, OHB System AG, and Nammo Space (UK) (ESA consortium 20 Nov 2025).

Gateway PPE + HALOPaused · Paused Gateway integrated architecture: Maxar Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) with Northrop Grumman HALO habitation.

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