Blue Origin's Idea of Turning Moondust Into Solar Cells Gets $35 Million NASA Funding
1 Aug 2023, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA awarded Blue Origin a $35 million helping hand for the development of the Blue Alchemist tech for lunar in-situ resource utilization
Race for Moon Resources Begins, Oxygen Extraction Plant in the Works
27 Aug 2022, 03:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ESA selects the builder of an oxygen-extracting piece of hardware, meant to form the basis of future extraction plants on the Moon
Trident Is the Mother of All Off-World Drills, Made to Dig Deep Into the Moon
18 Sep 2021, 07:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain (Trident) is the name of a new piece of hardware being developed for digging holes on the Moon
Ablative Arc Mining Could Forever Change Resource Utilization on Alien Worlds
28 Mar 2021, 09:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ablative Arc Mining is the solution proposed by the University of Texas, El Paso for future in-situ resource utilization acitvities
NASA to Pay Between $1 and $15,000 for Pieces of the Moon
6 Dec 2020, 08:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA awards four contract to private companies for the delivery of lunar regolith, to pay between $1 and $15,000 for rocks and dust
Got Plans to Build a Space Robot? NASA Might Pay $1 Million for It
16 Sep 2019, 15:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Through the Space Robotics Challenge NASA opened the doors to all those interested to come up with fresh ideas in the field of autonomous robots