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NASA’s powerful moon mining robot could dig 10,000 kg of soil in a single lunar day
Its key task would be to efficiently mine and transport lunar regolith – the loose rocky material covering the Moon's surface ...
SpaceX To Launch Second Private Moon Lander With Hopping Robot This Month
Private US company Intuitive Machines is back with its second Nova-C lander nicknamed Athena for the IM-2 mission. It is ...
NASA's polar ice experiment paves way for future moon missions
NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the moon's subsurface and analyze where ...
Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more
Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if ...
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Space Robotics Leader Says Humans Will Soon Join Robots On Moon, Mars
One of the globe’s top designers of space robots says a new “Golden Age of ... with a focus on extraterrestrial drilling and mining, from the University of California Berkeley, sketched ...
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Athena, Next U.S. Commercial Moon Lander, Is Set for Spectacular Lunar Science
In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...
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NASA Will Start Drilling on the Moon as Soon as Next Month
The second Intuitive Machines mission of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program will arrive on the Moon in ...