NASA moon instrument to return for subsurface volatile survey

He-3 Is Go: Commercial use of NASA Sensor marks new phase in the Lunar economy

Lunar resources extraction company, Magna Petra Corp., has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement... The post He-3 Is Go: Commercial use of NASA Sensor marks new phase in the Lunar economy appeared first on UK Tech News.

NASA's Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1) mission, designed to test lunar resource exploration technologies ahead of the Artemis program, has successfully demonstrated the operability of equipment in extreme conditions despite a shortened operational period, NASA reports. The launch of the IM-2 mission from Intuitive Machines took place on February 26, 2025. It was the second mission... The post NASA Confirms the Efficiency of PRI…

NASA moon instrument to return for subsurface volatile survey

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2025 NASA will once again send its Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) instrument to the Moon, this time aboard a commercial rover under a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Magna Petra Corp. The collaboration aims to study gases trapped beneath the lunar surface, with a focus on rare isotopes such as Helium-3. Following its successful performance during th