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NASA’s IM-2 Mission Brings Ice Mining, Mobile Robots, and More on Moon
NASA is launching IM-2, the second lunar mission under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, to explore the Moon’s South Pole. The Nova-C lander, built by Intuitive Machines, will carry groundbreaking technologies, including an ice-mining drill, a mobile hopping drone, and a lunar 4G network. These innovations will help scienti...
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NASA’s PRIME-1 Mission to Study Lunar Ice and Advance Moon Exploration
NASA’s PRIME-1 mission, set to launch on Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander, will explore lunar ice and subsurface materials at Mons Mouton near the Moon’s South Pole. The mission features the TRIDENT drill, which will extract soil samples up to one meter deep, and the MSOLO spectrometer, which will analyze gases released from these samples to...
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Humans Will Soon Be Able To Mine On The Moon. But Should We?
By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon.
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ispace and Magna Petra Collaborate for Sustainable Helium-3 Extraction from Moon
ispace and Magna Petra have joined forces to pioneer sustainable helium-3 extraction from the moon's regolith. Helium-3, a rare isotope critical for energy and technology applications, could be a game-changer for Earth. Magna Petra plans to use environmentally conscious methods to extract and transport the isotope. The initiative aligns with ispace...
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Moon Mining: Why Nations Are Eyeing A "Lunar Gold Rush"
Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Friday amid a race by major powers including the United States, China and India to discover more about the elements held on the earth's only natural satellite.
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NASA Plans To Mine Resources On The Moon. Here's What They Seek To Find
Reuters said the first customers are expected to be commercial rocket companies who could use the moon's surface for fuel or oxygen.
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NASA Releases Artemis Accords, Basic Principles for International Moon Exploration Pact
NASA on Friday set the stage for a global debate over the basic principles governing how humans will live and work on the moon, as it released the main tenets of an international pact for moon exploration called the Artemis Accords.
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Opinion: When India Was Obsessed With Another Moon Landing
For a 12-year-old schoolboy, Armstrong's moonwalk couldn't have been worse timed. The summer vacation had given over in the middle of July and for desis, the Eagle landed- given the time difference - on a Monday. That wouldn't have been so bad if Armstrong hadn't taken hours - bloody hours - to undo the hatch and climb down the ladder. The Lunar Mo...
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PM Modi's JFK Moment Spurs India To Plan Crewed Spaceflight By 2022
India plans to spend $1.4 billion to send a crew of three to space by 2022, spurred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal that will help the country break into an elite club.
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India's Quest For Trillion-Dollar Nuclear Fuel On Moon: Foreign Media
India's space program wants to go where no nation has gone before -- to the south side of the moon. And once it gets there, it will study the potential for mining a source of waste-free nuclear energy that could be worth trillions of dollars.
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India May Meet Its Energy Needs From Moon By 2030, Says ISRO Scientist
India can look forward to the moon to fulfil its energy requirements, to go by the words of ISRO scientist.Sivathanu Pillai, a distinguished professor at the ISRO, said with conviction on Saturday the country would meet its energy requirements by 2030 through Helium-3 mined from the moon.
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New US Space Mining Law to Spark Interplanetary Gold Rush
The act says that any materials American individuals or companies find on an asteroid or the moon is theirs to keep and do with as they please.
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At $27 Billion, Mining in Space Could Cost Less Than a Gas Plant
Getting a mine up and running on the moon or an asteroid would cost less than building the biggest gas terminals on Earth, according to research presented to a forum of company executives and NASA scientists.
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NASA’s IM-2 Mission Brings Ice Mining, Mobile Robots, and More on Moon
NASA is launching IM-2, the second lunar mission under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, to explore the Moon’s South Pole. The Nova-C lander, built by Intuitive Machines, will carry groundbreaking technologies, including an ice-mining drill, a mobile hopping drone, and a lunar 4G network. These innovations will help scienti...
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NASA’s PRIME-1 Mission to Study Lunar Ice and Advance Moon Exploration
NASA’s PRIME-1 mission, set to launch on Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander, will explore lunar ice and subsurface materials at Mons Mouton near the Moon’s South Pole. The mission features the TRIDENT drill, which will extract soil samples up to one meter deep, and the MSOLO spectrometer, which will analyze gases released from these samples to...
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Humans Will Soon Be Able To Mine On The Moon. But Should We?
By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon.
-
ispace and Magna Petra Collaborate for Sustainable Helium-3 Extraction from Moon
ispace and Magna Petra have joined forces to pioneer sustainable helium-3 extraction from the moon's regolith. Helium-3, a rare isotope critical for energy and technology applications, could be a game-changer for Earth. Magna Petra plans to use environmentally conscious methods to extract and transport the isotope. The initiative aligns with ispace...
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Moon Mining: Why Nations Are Eyeing A "Lunar Gold Rush"
Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Friday amid a race by major powers including the United States, China and India to discover more about the elements held on the earth's only natural satellite.
-
NASA Plans To Mine Resources On The Moon. Here's What They Seek To Find
Reuters said the first customers are expected to be commercial rocket companies who could use the moon's surface for fuel or oxygen.
-
NASA Releases Artemis Accords, Basic Principles for International Moon Exploration Pact
NASA on Friday set the stage for a global debate over the basic principles governing how humans will live and work on the moon, as it released the main tenets of an international pact for moon exploration called the Artemis Accords.
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Opinion: When India Was Obsessed With Another Moon Landing
For a 12-year-old schoolboy, Armstrong's moonwalk couldn't have been worse timed. The summer vacation had given over in the middle of July and for desis, the Eagle landed- given the time difference - on a Monday. That wouldn't have been so bad if Armstrong hadn't taken hours - bloody hours - to undo the hatch and climb down the ladder. The Lunar Mo...
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PM Modi's JFK Moment Spurs India To Plan Crewed Spaceflight By 2022
India plans to spend $1.4 billion to send a crew of three to space by 2022, spurred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal that will help the country break into an elite club.
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India's Quest For Trillion-Dollar Nuclear Fuel On Moon: Foreign Media
India's space program wants to go where no nation has gone before -- to the south side of the moon. And once it gets there, it will study the potential for mining a source of waste-free nuclear energy that could be worth trillions of dollars.
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India May Meet Its Energy Needs From Moon By 2030, Says ISRO Scientist
India can look forward to the moon to fulfil its energy requirements, to go by the words of ISRO scientist.Sivathanu Pillai, a distinguished professor at the ISRO, said with conviction on Saturday the country would meet its energy requirements by 2030 through Helium-3 mined from the moon.
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New US Space Mining Law to Spark Interplanetary Gold Rush
The act says that any materials American individuals or companies find on an asteroid or the moon is theirs to keep and do with as they please.
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At $27 Billion, Mining in Space Could Cost Less Than a Gas Plant
Getting a mine up and running on the moon or an asteroid would cost less than building the biggest gas terminals on Earth, according to research presented to a forum of company executives and NASA scientists.
