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Resources Saturday's stack of contracts includes PROMISE, a nuclear rover built from Mars spares that will dig a meter down at the south pole. The rest of the list is freight and power, which is where the hiring is.
Resources UT San Antonio gets $1 million to freeze, scoop and measure polar regolith before anyone tries to mine it. The student pipeline may matter as much as the data.
Business Three former SpaceX engineers are building spacecraft that split water into rocket propellant in orbit. Their first demo never got to fire, and a Moon delivery is already on the books.
Lunar Four flights stand between China and a crewed landing before 2030. The more telling line from Beijing was about when resource work should start, and what kind of lander would carry it.
Launch NASA will pick its 2028 lander on readiness. Blue Moon's new plan stacks three transfer stages instead of moving propellant, and New Glenn still has to return to flight after May's pad anomaly.
Mars Years of grime on spacesuit swatches riding the rover show ultrafine particles down to about 100 nanometers. That's a crew-health finding, and a design brief for anyone planning to dig on Mars.
Lunar NASA's 2027 Earth-orbit flight docks Orion with both commercial landers. The harder problem, moving enough fuel to reach the Moon, sits outside the mission.
Lunar NASA's Oct. 20 update quietly adds resource prospecting to the rovers' daily work. Whether it means anything depends on the payload list.
Policy Each signature is another government endorsing the U.S. reading of who may own extracted space resources. 2026 has added 17.
Lunar Three scoops, two extraction methods and a mass spectrometer. Ready in September 2027, seeking a 2028 launch, with customer deliveries due around the same time.
Mars JAXA's sample-return mission launched Oct. 19. Whether Phobos is a captured asteroid or Martian debris changes what it's good for.
Lunar Two SpaceNews episodes and a Friday NASA briefing describe a step-by-step base. Local resources stay a bonus until a mission depends on them.
Lunar China's ice-hunting lander, with a hopper built to enter shadowed craters, missed its August window. What the delay means for the race to measure lunar ice.
Launch SpaceX says orbital flights start with Flight 14 and a ship-to-ship propellant transfer is targeted for 2026. Why lunar miners should care more than satellite customers.
Business A MIRORES-led consortium will model the full lunar resource chain, from prospecting to customer, for water, oxygen, metals and helium-3.
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