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Italian Space Agency

Italy's national space agency. In this dataset it is the agency behind ORACLE, a payload project to demonstrate oxygen extraction from lunar regolith; on 23 June 2025 it announced an industrial contract with OHB Italia to develop the payload up to the flight model.

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Facts

Headquarters
Italy
Type
Government agency
Status
Activeas of 2025-06-23. ASI's release of 23 June 2025 announces the ORACLE contract with OHB Italia. This record covers ASI's role in that project only; the agency's wider programmes were not reviewed for this dataset.
Roles
Processing / ISRU
Targets
Moon
Also known as
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana; ASI
Website
www.asi.it/

Missions

1 records
MissionRoleLaunch or landingPhaseOutcome
ORACLE lunar oxygen-extraction payload (Italian Space Agency)PayloadPayload ownerNot recordedIn developmentNot applicable

Dated events

Amounts are shown one at a time as each source states them. They are never added together.

  1. 2025-06-23

    ASI and OHB Italia announce the ORACLE payload contract

    ContractOHB Italia S.p.A.With ORACLE lunar oxygen-extraction payload (Italian Space Agency), Italian Space Agency

    On 23 June 2025 the Italian Space Agency and OHB Italia announced that they had signed an industrial contract for ORACLE, under which OHB Italia, as prime contractor, is to design, build and test a lunar oxygen-extraction payload over forty months, up to the flight model. No contract value is given.

    Sources (5) and evidence gaps
    1. [1]ORACLE: al via il progetto italiano per l'estrazione di ossigeno dalla regolite lunare
      Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Government recordPublished 2025-06-23Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: summary, date
      L’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana e OHB Italia hanno siglato un contratto industriale
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    2. [2]ORACLE: al via il progetto italiano per l'estrazione di ossigeno dalla regolite lunare
      Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Government recordPublished 2025-06-23Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: summary
      Nel corso dei prossimi quaranta mesi, OHB Italia sarà responsabile della progettazione, costruzione e testing
      Quote matched the source text when accessed.
    3. [3]ORACLE: via al progetto italiano per l'estrazione di ossigeno dalla regolite lunare
      OHB Italia S.p.A.Company statementPublished 2025-06-23Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: summary, organizations or records involved
      OHB Italia guiderà il progetto in qualità di Prime Contractor
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    4. [4]ORACLE: via al progetto italiano per l'estrazione di ossigeno dalla regolite lunare
      OHB Italia S.p.A.Company statementPublished 2025-06-23Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: date
      Roma, 23 giugno 2025
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    5. [5]ORACLE: al via il progetto italiano per l'estrazione di ossigeno dalla regolite lunare
      Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Government recordPublished 2025-06-23Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: resources
      per rendere accessibile l’ossigeno presente in forma di ossidi contenuti nel suolo lunare
      Quote matched the source text when accessed.
    • No contract value or currency is stated.
    • The signing date is not stated separately from the announcement.

Open evidence gaps

  • Founding year and the agency's other space-resources activities were not reviewed for this record.

Sources

3 excerpts from 2 publications

One web address counts as one publication.

  1. [1]ORACLE: al via il progetto italiano per l'estrazione di ossigeno dalla regolite lunare
    Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Government recordPublished 2025-06-23Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: name, summary, status explanation, status date
    L’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana e OHB Italia hanno siglato un contratto industriale
    Quote matched the source text when accessed.
  2. [2]ORACLE: al via il progetto italiano per l'estrazione di ossigeno dalla regolite lunare
    Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)Government recordPublished 2025-06-23Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: summary, role, target bodies
    (Oxygen Retrieval Asset for Carbothermal Lunar Extraction), un sistema innovativo per estrarre ossigeno dalla regolite
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  3. [3]Development Status of Oracle, the ISRU Demonstrator for Oxygen Extraction on the Moon (IAC-24)
    ASI and Politecnico di Milano authors (IAC-24 paper, Politecnico di Milano repository)Government recordPublished 2024-10Accessed 2026-10-31Supports: aliases, headquarters country
    Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Via del Politecnico snc, 00133, Rome, Italy
    Quote matched the source text when accessed.

Cite this record

SpaceMiningData, “Italian Space Agency”, dataset version a00fa2c68a45, built 2026-11-11, https://spaceminingdata.com/organizations/asi.html. Record checked 2026-10-31.