European Student Moon Orbiter
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The European Student Moon Orbiter (ESMO) was a proposed European student mission to the Moon. Student teams from 19 universities throughout Europe worked on the program. ESMO was conceived by the Student Space Exploration & Technology Initiative (SSETI) under the support of the European Space Agency (ESA); prior to the start of Phase A the full responsibility for the management of the program was transferred to the ESA Education Office.
In 2009, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) was selected as prime contractor.[1] In April 2012, ESMO was scheduled for launch in 2014 or 2015,[1] but further ESA evaluation deemed the ESMO project's costs "unsustainable" given the ESA Education Office's budget.[2]