Submitted by Gari_305 t3_zwv6o3 in Futurology
Gari_305 OP t1_j1wxniz wrote
From the Article
>Anand’s colleagues will send up an instrument they have designed in Nasa’s next Artemis mission, scheduled for 2024, called an exospheric mass spectrometer, to drill into rock, withdraw and analyse water.
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>The research into water extraction is important because it costs an estimated $1m to bring a kilogram of any substance into space, so extracting water would be much more cost-effective.
ai-dev t1_j20p6nn wrote
The long term plan is to use the water to refuel rockets.
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