Creating break-through technologies to facilitate the large-scale commercialization of the Moon.
Created: 2020-05-03
Updated: 2024-07-24
Company - Lunar Resources
Product/Service - Farview Observatory, Lunar South Pole Oxygen Pipeline
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
Resources - Energy
Space Construction Company
- Fields
- Moon
- Status
- Early stage
- First launch
- Not announced
- Partners
- DSTAR Communications, Wood
Focusing on manufacturing and energy generation in the space environment utilizing space resources to create breakthrough technologies to facilitate the large-scale commercialization of the Moon.
The DSTAR Communications team includes partners FOMS of San Diego, California, Visioneering Space of Boise, Idaho, and Lunar Resources of Houston.
Lunar South Pole Oxygen Pipeline
Molten Regolith Electrolysis
- Colorado School of Mines researchers get $2M from NASA to advance technology for extracting aluminum from lunar soil.
- Molten regolith electrolysis – which processes melted lunar soil to extract the metals within – is one of the leading processes for in situ resource utilization of lunar metals and oxygen
- Industry partner Lunar Resources will provide the MRE reactors and casting technology for turning the extracted molten aluminum metal into a wire. The two-year project will culminate in end-to-end testing at Lunar Resources’ Texas facility.
Silicon and Iron Regolith Extraction on the Moon (SIRE)
Farview Observatory
MW Program
Satellite Servicing Coating Program
Regolith Additive Manufacturing Program
Lunar Resource Extraction
Lunar Metallurgy
Space Manufacturing & Assembly
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