"The high-rate excavation needed to harvest helium-3 from the moon in large quantities has never been attempted before, let ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon ...

Look, no one said building a large harvester to roam around the Moon and sift through hundreds of tons of regolith to ...

Greece-based entrepreneur has a unique idea for moon-bound deliveries: using a giant net to catch packages launched from ...

A breakthrough came earlier this year, however, when Texas-based Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial firm to ...

US-based start up Interlune has unveiled helium-3 harvestor prototype for a novel moon-mining machine. Rob Meyerson, co-founder and CEO of the Seattle-based startup Interlune said: "When you're ...

Vermeer has unveiled a full-scale prototype of its Interlune excavator, a machine designed to extract valuable helium – on ...

NASA’s RASSOR robot successfully demonstrated regolith excavation in a lunar soil simulant test, showcasing its ...

Credit: Interlune In what appears to be a historic first, Moon-mining startup Interlune has signed contracts to excavate, process and return thousands of liters of helium-3 to Earth. The contracts ...

Most plans for moon mining involve robots doing much of the work, overseen by humans either on moon bases or on orbiting space stations. Seattle startup Interlune recently released a prototype of ...