Lunar Exploration Orbiter proposal
8 November 2007Germany announced a proposal by the German space agency DLR to build and fly a lunar orbiter using all-German technology. The 2-tonne Lunar Exploration Orbiter (LEO), to be built by EADS Astrium and OHB System, would cost $508 million and would be launched into a 50-km lunar orbit in 2012. The project was approved on 2 October by the German parliament’s economics committee, which allocated $414 million to begin work on the mission. The research ministry will contribute funding as well.
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