Lunar prospecting
Turning scattered ice detections at the south pole into survey data a mission planner can actually land on.
SpaceOro is an engineering organisation, not an operator. The work today is mission design, orbital analysis and vehicle architecture for a lunar transportation network that starts with mapping and ends with routine cargo.
Turning scattered ice detections at the south pole into survey data a mission planner can actually land on.
A vehicle architecture designed for repeat transfers between low Earth orbit and lunar orbit rather than one-off flights.
Built with European avionics, propulsion and ground segment suppliers, under European programmes.
The near-term focus is the lunar south pole. Water ice there has been detected by several missions since 2009, but detection is not the same thing as a map, and a base cannot be sited on a signal average spread over kilometres.
Longer term, the same architecture supports cargo between Earth orbit, lunar orbit and the lunar surface. Mars is an expansion of that architecture, not a separate programme.