Artist’s impression of a future Interlune moon mining mission
Interlune
An area start-up will launch a moon mining mission in 2027, with the eventual aim of delivering a uncommon type of helium that’s important for some quantum computer systems and future nuclear fusion reactors. If profitable, will probably be the primary industrial mission of its type.
Helium-3, a type of helium with one neutron – versus regular helium-4, which has two – is extraordinarily uncommon on Earth, at a ratio of roughly one half per million…
