The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently establishing its plans and priorities for the next
phase of European involvement in international Human Spaceflight and Exploration. Coordinated
by the Directorate of Human Spaceflight (D-HSF), the overarching goal of the European Human
Exploration Programme with regards to the Moon is:
 “to prepare for and conduct exploration of the Moon, focusing on those elements key
to a future European contribution to international human lunar exploration, and to
progressively advance our understanding of the Moon itself.”
These plans include the progressive development and demonstration of technologies critical to the
future exploration of the Moon. The first mission opportunity in this programme has an expected
launch date of around 2018. Given the importance of landing as a technological capability, the
candidate missions under consideration are all lunar surface missions.
 
The purpose of this Request For Information (RFI) is to gather ideas and concepts for experiment
or payload elements which can address high level programme objectives, and which might be
considered as candidate payload options for Europe’s first lunar lander.

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