Hardware

PROSPECT

ESA

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.

Companies

LeonardoOEM

European Space Agency (ESA)

Flights

IM-4NET ~2027 · Intuitive Machines' IM-4 Nova-C lander delivers six NASA science payloads under CLPS task order CP-22 to Mons Mouton near the lunar south pole, among them ESA's Prospect drill built by Leonardo.

Jobs

PROSPECT resource prospecting package (ESA)

Leonardo

Cargo

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

Sources

CLPS CP-22 Science NASA, 10 December 2025
NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Deliver Artemis Science, Tech to Moon NASA, 27 March 2026
Prospect – searching for water at the lunar poles ESA
Drilling down for the Moon ESA, 15 October 2026
Telespazio Benelux to build the ground infrastructure for ESA's lunar ice-hunting mission Telespazio, 9 October 2026