ESA at Space-Comm Expo

Charles Cranstoun, Head of ESA’s Moonlight Programme Office, participated in a panel discussion entitled ‘Lunar exploration: Missions, technologies and industry trends’.

Moonlight aims to lead Europe in enabling connectivity from the lunar surface and to the Earth, serving the needs of future missions by creating a constellation of satellites for satellite communications around the Moon. The Moonlight programme works with European and Canadian industry to create a shared service in telecommunications and navigation, which is predicted to contribute to the activation of a €100 billion lunar economy.