This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product HERACLES robotic sample return lunar mission near Earth, illust

---

This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product HERACLES robotic sample return lunar mission near Earth, illustration. HERACLES (Human-Enhanced Robotic Architecture and Capability for Lunar Exploration and Science) is a robotic sample return mission spacecraft. Planned by ESA with the Canadian and Japanese space agencies, this mission will use the proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway space station as a staging post on both the outward and return journeys. HERACLES will survey areas of the lunar surface in preparation for future crewed missions to the Moon.

---

Size: 3525px × 2492px
Photo credit: © ATG medialab/EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -, 2020s, 21st, architecture, arriving, artwork, canadian, capability, century, departing, earth, exp, flight, future, futuristic, heracles, human-enhanced, illustration, japanese, lunar, mission, missions, moon, nasa, preparing, return, returning, robotic, sample, space, spacecraft, spaceflight, survey, technological, technology