ERSA is an ESA space weather payload that will be hosted on the Lunar Gateway. It will provide information about the space environment at Gateway. Imperial is contributing instrumentation to the ERSA payload, and is part of the science team.

Mission Summary

As part of ERSA, Imperial College London is leading the delivery of a miniaturized magnetometer instrument, MAGIC, that builds on the success of the RadCube project. 

ERSA

ERSA

  • Launch Date: with the Lunar Gateway
  • Orbit: Lunar orbit
  • Mission Duration: .
  • Imperial College Involvement: MAGIC instrument, to provide information about the magnetic field at the Lunar Gateway, as part of the ERSA suite of instruments. 
  • Imperial College Team Lead: Prof. Jonathan Eastwood.

External Links

An introduction to ERSA – the European experiment to monitor radiation and magnetic fields in deep space

Imperial College Contact

For more information, please contact:

Prof. Jonathan Eastwood
The Blackett Laboratory
Imperial College London
SW7 2AZ
UK

Email: jonathan.eastwood@imperial.ac.uk