Objectives
The mission objectives for ESMO are:
- To launch the first lunar spacecraft to be designed, built and operated by students across ESA Member States and ESA Cooperating States.
- To place and operate the spacecraft in a lunar orbit.
- To acquire images of the Moon from a stable lunar orbit and transmit them back to Earth for education outreach purposes.
- To perform new measurements relevant to advanced technology demonstration, lunar science and exploration.
The educational aim of the project is to provide valuable hands-on experience to university students within a real and demanding space project. This is in order to fully prepare a well qualified workforce for ambitious future ESA missions.
Read more about this topic: European Student Moon Orbiter
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“Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)