EUROHAB
Spartan Space
Inflatable, deployable lunar surface habitat delivered as payload by a robotic lander, serving as an outpost, emergency refuge, and autonomous science station for extended lunar exploration.
Technical specifications
- Architecture
- Inflatable, deployable
- Delivery mode
- Payload of robotic lander (unpressurised transit)
- Target deployment site
- Lunar south pole (PSR craters, Peaks of Eternal Light)
- Compatible landers
- ESA Argonaut (EL3), The Exploration Company NYX
- Mass constraint
- ≤1500 kg
- Original prototype diameter
- 7 m
- Exploration range with pressurised rover
- 12 km from HLS
- Exploration range on foot
- 2 km from HLS
- Prototype status
- Full-scale EUROHAB I (2021); EUROHAB II breadboard (2023-2024)
- Flight heritage
- Analog testing at ESA ESRIC Luxembourg, DLR-ESA LUNA Cologne, Abu Dhabi desert
- Partners
- CNES, Thales Alenia Space France, ESA
About
EUROHAB is an inflatable, deployable habitat developed by Spartan Space to bridge critical exploration gaps at the lunar south pole. Designed to be delivered unpressurised aboard a robotic lander such as ESA’s Argonaut (EL3) or NYX (The Exploration Company), it autonomously deploys on the surface and serves multiple roles: a pressurised outpost extending crew range from the Human Landing System, an emergency refuge for off-nominal scenarios, an autonomous science station between crewed missions, storage for subsequent sorties, and a lunar-night survival shelter for rovers.
EUROHAB targets Points of Interest including Permanently Shadowed Regions with water-ice deposits and Peaks of Eternal Light, directly supporting NASA ARTEMIS programme objectives. A full-scale 7 m diameter prototype was completed in 2021 and exhibited at IAC Dubai; a second breadboard (EUROHAB II) was tested at DLR-ESA LUNA Analog Facility in Cologne. An ESA-contracted orbital variant was studied in 2023. EUROHAB won the ‘Lunar Village’ special mention at Expo 2020 Dubai and was developed in collaboration with CNES and Thales Alenia Space France.
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