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# Italy's space agency contracts OHB to build lunar oxygen extraction payload
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-06-23-asi-ohb-oracle-lunar-oxygen-contract/
- Published: 2025-06-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T04:04:52.000Z
- Description: Italy's space agency signed a contract with OHB Italia's consortium to design, build and test ORACLE, a payload that extracts oxygen from lunar regolith, over a roughly 40 month programme.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [Agenzia Spaziale Italiana press release, 23 June 2025](https://www.asi.it/2025/06/oracle-al-via-il-progetto-italiano-per-lestrazione-di-ossigeno-dalla-regolite-lunare/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not disclose the contract's current value or name a launch date for the payload.

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