In view of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, the European Space Agency (ESA) has suspended cooperation with Russia on their lunar missions “Luna”. The ESA technologies that should have been transported with the Russian missions are now being put into space elsewhere.
As the Paris-based ESA announced on Wednesday, a drilling and analysis package is now going to fly to the moon with the help of the US space agency NASA. Work is also underway on an alternate route to the Moon for the precise Pilot landing system.
Commenting on the decisions of the ESA Council, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher wrote on Twitter: “The time to realize our ambitions for a strong, autonomous and resilient Europe in space has never been more important.”
The European Space Agency had previously suspended the joint European-Russian space project “Exomars” to search for traces of life on Mars.
Source: Krone
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