Humans want to mine the moon. Here's what space law …
That includes water — essential for human life and a source for fuel when broken down into hydrogen and oxygen — as well as rare earth minerals and helium-3, a potential source of energy.
Interlune Aims to Mine the Moon for Helium-3
Interlune Aims to Mine the Moon for Helium-3. The rare isotope can be used in fusion, quantum computing, medicine and more. Ned Potter. 25 Mar 2024. 4 min …
Lunar Helium-3: Mining Concepts, Extraction Research, and …
This paper describes various methods and designs specifically proposed for mining helium-3, and summarizes the methods, results and potential implications of recent research on helium extraction from lunar regolith simulant. This paper also touches on the potential synergy of lunar propellant production with helium-3 mining and some of the ...
Lunar Helium-3: Mining Concepts, Extraction …
WCSAR's researchers produced several mining concepts including mobile miners that excavate and process lunar regolith and in-situ volatile release and capture approaches. …
Solving the climate and energy crises: Mine the Moon's helium …
According to a paper published by Jeff Bonde and Anthony Tortorello, helium-3 is an isotope that has been deposited in lunar soil over billions of years by solar wind. Roughly 1.1 million metric ...
(PDF) Mining Rights Of Developing Nations On …
The Moon and Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are increasingly gaining attention as sources of raw materials.1 They might be able to satisfy growing needs of the humans, while the limited amount of natural …
Interlune says it's raised millions to mine Helium-3 on the moon …
Founded by former Blue Origin executives and an Apollo astronaut, Interlune says it intends to extract Helium-3 and return it to Earth. By Christian Davenport. March 13, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. An ...
Mining the moon: do we have the right?
His three days on the Moon and his PhD in geology, coalesced into a new mission: to encourage mining the isotope Helium-3 (3He) from Moon rock, to harness a new form of renewable energy.
A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 on the Moon: …
Richard B. Bilder, A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 on the Moon: U.S. Policy Options, 33 F ordham I nt'l L.J. 243 (2009). Absent an agreed international legal framework, attempts by the United States or any other nation or private entity to acquire and bring to Earth significant quantities of He-3 could give rise to …
Lunar Helium-3: Mining Concepts, Extraction …
Abstract: View Video Presentation: https://doi/10.2514/6.2021-4237.vid. This paper describes various methods and designs specifically proposed for mining …
Former Blue Origin Employees Want to Harvest Helium-3 From the Moon
Seattle-based startup Interlune recently announced that it raised $15 million in funding as part of its plan to harvest and sell natural resources from the Moon. The company wants to initially ...
Can Interlune Mine Helium-3 on the Moon?
Specifically, Interlune is focused on Helium-3, a stable isotope that is scarce on Earth but plentiful on the moon and could be used as fuel in nuclear fusion reactors as well as helping power the quantum computing industry. The company, based in Seattle, has been working for about four years on the technology, which comes as the commercial ...
Harnessing Power from the Moon
Olson, a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship recipient, is studying an application of in-situ resource utilization that involves mining helium-3 on …
Interlune lays out its plan to harvest helium-3 on the moon
(For what it's worth, lunar helium-3 mining was featured in the 2009 sci-fi film "Moon." Meyerson emphasized that Interlune would take a "sustainable and responsible" approach to ...
Interlune Aims to Mine the Moon for Helium-3
On 13 March, a startup called Interlune announced that it hopes to mine the lunar regolith for helium-3. Schmitt is the company's co-founder and executive chairman. Helium-3 (or He-3) is a ...
Mining Helium-3 on the Moon has been talked about …
The material doesn't cost enough to even justify attempting to land on the moon. Maybe if it was million per liter. Where bringing back 10,000 liters back at a time through sending back through ...
Helium-3: The secret 'mining war' in space
Scientists say two fully-loaded Space Shuttle cargo bay's worth of Helium-3 — about 40 tonnes worth of the gas — could power the United States for a year at the current rate of energy consumption. Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, recently said, the moon is "so rich" in Helium-3 ...
Here's how we could mine the moon for rocket fuel
Water on the moon is in the form of tiny ice grains mixed into the soil, mostly located in the permanently shadowed regions within craters near the poles. Here, temperatures of 40 K (-233.15 °C ...
China Plans Three Moon-Mining Missions to Discover More …
The mineral contains helium-3, ... China is upping its moon-mining efforts; the next mission, the Chang'e-7, will reportedly focus on the search for water near the moon's South Pole. It seems ...
Lunar Helium-3: Mining Concepts, Extraction …
Researchers at WCSAR produced several mining concepts including mobile miners that excavate and process lunar regolith and in-situ volatile release and capture approaches. …
A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon | WIRED
The lunar surface may hold the answer. Two of Blue Origin's earliest employees, former president Rob Meyerson and chief architect Gary Lai, have started a company that seeks to extract helium-3 ...
A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 on the Moon: …
Abstract. This article addresses questions of U.S. international legal and space policy arising from current proposals of the U.S., Russia, China and India to establish national bases on the Moon, in part with the purpose of mining and bringing to Earth Helium-3 (He-3).
Lunar Helium-3: Mining Concepts, Extraction Research, …
for the Commercial Development of Space, to study how 3He could be mined from the Moon. Researchers at WCSAR produced several mining concepts including mobile miners that excavate and process lunar regolith and in-situ volatile release and capture approaches. A. Characteristics of Solar Wind Implanted Helium
Lunar Helium-3: Mining Concepts, Extraction Research, …
from the Moon. WCSAR's researchers produced several mining concepts including mobile miners that excavate and process lunar regolith and in-situ volatile release and capture approaches. The most detailed of the mining concepts is the Mark-III (M-3) miner, completed in 2006.
This company plans to mine helium-3 on the moon to …
However, Interlune isn't the only company that has eyes on the moon's helium-3 reserves. In June 2023, NASA also announced its plans to begin mining on the moon by 2032.
Could mining Helium-3 from the moon solve …
As I researched lunar mining and articles about helium-3 fusion for the novel, I learned there is a consensus in the scientific community that helium-3 is a viable alternative.
Earth Is Running Out of Helium. A Treasure on the …
That helium scarcity is now having an impact on the technological sectors in the U.S., and as a result, Interlune wants to mine helium-3 from the Moon and bring it …
Helium mining on the Moon: Site selection and evaluation
The feasibility of recovering helium (He) from the Moon as a source of fusion energy on Earth is currently being studied at the University of Wisconsin. Part of this study is selection and evaluation of potential sites for lunar He mining. Selection and evaluation of potential mining sites are based on four salient findings by various investigators of …
Mining of Helium-3 on the Moon: Resource, Technology, …
Lunar helium-3 is considered one of the potential resources for utilization as a fuel source for future Earth-based nuclear fusion plants. With a potential start-up of a commercial fusion power plant by the year 2050, the author describes technology and commercial aspects for a lunar helium-3 mining operation that could fuel such a power …
Is Moon Mining Economically Feasible? | Space
Strip-mining the lunar surface over hundreds of square kilometers would produce lots of helium-3, he said, but the substance is a limited resource. "It's a fossil fuel reserve.