LEO (spacecraft)

LEO (Lunarer Erkundungsorbiter - engl.: Lunar Exploration Orbiter) is the name of a proposed German mission to the Moon, announced by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.) Director Walter Doellinger on March 2, 2007.Precise characteristics of the mission will be announced in early 2008 and estimated costs are 300 million euros (390 million dollars) over five years, however the mission will involve a lunar orbiter that DLR intends to build and launch in 2012 to map the lunar surface. It would be the first German mission to the Moon and the first European mission to the Moon since SMART-1.
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