10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
... to operate day and night, regardless of sunlight conditions. This CubeSat mission concept, which is called the Mini Lunar Volatiles Mission, or MiLUV for short, could also study the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions that haven’t seen...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... orbit placed it outside the Earth’s magnetosphere. The loss of the lunar magnetosphere doomed the lunar atmosphere, stripping it away and leaching out most of the trapped volatiles in the lunar soils over time. Micrometeors also played their role...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... (ice and regolith at -150 deg C) that are harder than terrestrial concrete. A particular problem is volatile preservation: while lunar volatiles are stable in cold samples, they quickly evaporate if sample temperatures rise due to the drilling and...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... that specifically bound contracts for resource exploration and extraction services be used as the only access to lunar volatiles for private entities (as opposed to grants or purchase orders) and these contracts should be awarded and supervised...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
...the Moon. This image shows a resource prospector carrying a Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE) experiment, intended to find, characterise and map ice and other substances in almost permanently shadowed...
