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Inventors on hunt for way to make clean water on moon

Summary

UK Space Agency awards £30k in funding to 10 teams racing to solve the complex problem.Inventors hope to crack how to create a reliable clean water supply on the moon – and it may involve a microwave oven from Tesco.The goal to set up a crewed lunar base was launched many moons ago but has yet to come to fruition. With reliance on water supplies from Earth risky and expensive, one of the many challenges is how to extract and purify water from ice lying in craters at the lunar south pole.

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Mirage News

UK Space Agency Funds Moon Soil Water Purification Tech

the Aqualunar Challenge is a £1.2 million international prize funded by the UK Space Agency's International Bilateral Fund and delivered by Challenge

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Water on the Moon: international prize launches for purifying lunar water

The £1.2m Aqualunar Challenge has been launched today to develop technologies to purify ice buried beneath the Moon’s surface to make human habitation on the Moon viable. The prize is being delivered by Challenge Works and the UK Space Agency, in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency and Impact Canada.

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