ESA Awards ispace New Contract for MAGPIE Moon Mission

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The European Space Agency has awarded a contract to Luxembourg-based ispace EUROPE to develop a rover that will study the surface of the Moon. The ispace EUROPE-led consortium was awarded an initial pre-Phase A contract for the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration (MAGPIE) in December 2024. MAGPIE…