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Blue Origin Plans A Pair Of Low-Flying Prospectors Around The Lunar South Pole
The water locked up in the Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) of the Moon’s south pole is a critical resource if we are ever going to get a permanent lunar presence off the ground. But while we know the water ice there exists, we don’t really know how much. We have to move from general estimates to mineable-scale prospecting data. That is what Oasis-1, the newly proposed lunar prospecting mission from Blue Origin that was recently introduced at…
Blue Origin, the space exploration company founded by Jeff Bezos, announced the Oasis-1 mission, focused on lunar prospecting. Presented at the 2026 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, the mission aims to collect data on the resources available in the South Pole region of the Moon, especially water, which is considered essential for future human presence on the satellite. Objective of the Oasis-1 Mission The main objective of the Oasis-1 mis…
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