A package is foreseen which will assess the resource utilisation potential of the lunar surface by drilling, extracting and chemically processing samples of lunar regolith before performing chemical and isotopic analysis on the derived products. In doing so the package can also address questions of fundamental scientific interest. The first platform targeted for such a package is the Russian Luna‐27 (Luna‐Resurs) mission.

The Lunar Dust Analysis Package or L-DAP comprises a number of instruments intended to measure the microscopic properties of lunar dust including:

-The size distribution of the lunar dust
-The structure of the dust grains
-The presence and abundance of key components (eg: nanophase Fe)
-The presence and concentration of specific minerals
-The percentage mass of key elements
-The abundance and distribution of H2O, OH and hydrated minerals
-Electrophysical properties and magnetic field and permittivity.