The offer of a Polish consortium led by Creotech Instruments has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to prepare Phase 0/A for Europe’s most important lunar mapping mission.

Creotech Instruments will be responsible for designing the entire mission and the satellite based on its proprietary HyperSat microsatellite platform. The other consortium members responsible for the optical payload are the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the Institute of Geological Sciences of the PAN.

The project will begin in January 2024 and will last 12 months.

With Creotech as leader, the Polish consortium will carry out a feasibility study for Europe’s most important lunar mapping mission. The Twardowski project fits perfectly into our development strategy and into the framework of the European Space Agency’s broadly planned and long-term activities aimed at exploring the Earth’s natural satellite. „This is a great distinction for our company and a chance to send to the Moon’s orbit the most technologically advanced mapping satellite in the history of space industry development” said Creotech CEO Grzegorz Brona.

The satellite will be based on a proprietary HyperSat microsatellite platform and adapted for deep space operations, including very high radiation resistance, and handling a large, advanced payload. The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences will be responsible for the design of this research instrument. „With the implementation of the Twardowski mission and precise mapping by the satellite, our data will enable the full exploitation of the potential of the Moon’s resources through their future extraction, processing and even production on its surface”, said Creotech’s president.

Adrian Andrzejewski