Aurora programme

For the rumored American spy plane, see Aurora (aircraft). For other uses, see Aurora (disambiguation).
This space art, titled The Next Stop, was selected by the ESA when discussing its Aurora program.[1]

The Aurora programme (sometimes called Aurora Exploration Programme, or simply Exploration Programme) was a human spaceflight programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) established in 2001. The objective was to formulate and then to implement a European long-term plan for exploration of the Solar System using robotic spacecraft and human spaceflight to investigate bodies holding promise for traces of life beyond the Earth.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Liftoff for Aurora: Europe's first steps to Mars, the Moon and beyond". www.esa.int.
  2. ^ "The European Space Exploration Programme Aurora". ESA.
  3. ^ "Assessing Aurora". Astrobiology Magazine. April 7, 2007. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2015-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)