Business of Space

Venture-Backed US Firm Inks Deals to Harvest Moon Resources

Interlune is developing a system to excavate, sort, extract and separate helium-3 from lunar soil.

An Interlune rendering of a rocket with a capsule containing helium-3 taking off from the lunar surface.

Source: Interlune

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Hello from Princeton, New Jersey. While private companies are still struggling to land spacecraft on the moon, a US startup is already signing deals to return a valuable resource from the lunar surface. But first ...

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