Houston-based Lunar Resources is receiving $175,000 from NASA to study the plausibility...
— oxygen, aluminum, silicon, magnesium and iron — to build infrastructure.
In either scenario, oxygen would likely travel long distances to a facility that would prepare the oxygen to be used in rocket propellant. And using rovers for this task could be very energy intensive. Lunar Resources is partnering with Wood PLC, an engineering company with pipeline experience, to bring more expertise to the project.
But there are some problems Lunar Resources would need to solve before it can turn the moon’s soil into a pipeline. There needs to be a power grid on the moon to operate its system, and there needs to be a lunar lander capable of carrying the company’s 1,000 kilograms worth of mining technology to the moon. The initial lunar landers being developed for cargo can’t handle the system’s mass.
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