U.S. Department of Energy Buys Helium-3 from U.S. Space Resources Company Interlune in Historic Agreement

U.S. Department of Energy Buys Helium-3 from U.S. Space Resources Company Interlune in Historic Agreement

Event is the First-Ever Government Purchase of a Natural Resource from Space

Interlune Secures Helium-3 Agreements with Maybell Quantum and U.S. Department of Energy to Enable Scalable Quantum Cryogenics and National Security Applications - Quantum Computing Report

Seattle-based space resources company Interlune has announced two landmark agreements to supply helium-3, a scarce isotope essential to quantum computing and national security applications. The first agreement designates Maybell Quantum as Interlune’s inaugural commercial customer, committing to purchase thousands of liters of helium-3 annually from 2029 to 2035 to fuel its cryogenic refrigeration systems for [...] The post Interlune Secures Hel…

Helium is essential to many advanced technologies: MRI, semiconductors, rockets, nuclear research. However, this non-renewable gas is in a global shortage, as its production relies almost exclusively on natural gas extraction, a highly CO2 emitting method. This model is no longer tenable. Faced with this fact, an international team of researchers led by Ernest Mulaya, geologist at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Jon Gluyas, profes…

Mining the Moon’s Helium-3: Interlune Reports Progress

The visionary Interlune company, based in Seattle, Washington, announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program (DOE IP) has agreed to purchase three liters of helium-3 harvested from the Moon for delivery on Earth at approximately today’s commercial market price. The delivery date is no later than April 2029. The agreement marks the […]