We have just received a preliminary look at the initial model of the Negro Mining machine.
“When you operate the equipment the moonRob Meerson, co -founder and CEO of Startup Interne, said, said. In the May 7 statement.
The device is designed to increase 110 tons (100 metric tons) of lunar dirt, or Reagole, per hour for harvesting Helium 3The potential source of fuel for future melting reactors. Helium 3 is rare on Earth, but it is believed to be abundant on the surface of the moon.
Gary Lay, co -founder of the co -founder of technology, said in the same statement: “The highly modified high excavation was never attempted to harvest the Helium 3 of the moon in large quantities before, not to mention high efficiency,” said Gary Lay, co -founder of the co -founder of technology.
The construction of the initial model has strengthened a unique partnership between Interior and Vermeer, a 70 -year -old manufacturer for agriculture and industrial equipment. Lay added: “We are very pleased with the results of the test program so far and we look forward to the next stage of development,” Lay added.
Interlune said that excavations are the first step in a four -step planned system to harvest natural resources from space: excavation, sorting, extraction and separation. The startup is offered with the construction of the initial model widely after a smaller version of the device successfully.
As a potential source to change the game for fuel that can be used in a set of industries in the future, helium -3 -and obtaining it from the moon to Earth was a hot topic for years, and there was there Americanand ChineseAnd Japanese Efforts were focused on rare helium mining.
However, the cost of helium -3 harvesting and then delivering it for use on Earth can make it the cost as a source of fuel in the near future, according to Ian Croford, professor of planetary science and astronomy in Berkebeck, University of London.
In 2021, Crawford told Space.com The “huge quantities of investment and infrastructure needed to extract, extract and transport the lunar Helium-3” means that energy sources here are here land You may be cheaper for a period of time.
Interior and Vermeer are part of a larger wave of companies and institutions that are looking to help pave the way for future industries in and around the moon. For example, the US Defense Research Agency (DARPA) presented it to it Lunar capacity study for 10 years (Luna-10) In 2023 and 14 companies have been chosen To provide ideas on how to develop a moon’s economy.
