Interlune says it's struck a deal with Astrolab to send a camera to the moon to estimate how much helium-3 is present in lunar soil.

Space mining company Interlune will fly a multispectral camera on Astrolab Griffin Mission 1 to determine how much helijm-3 ...

The Interlune payload is a multispectral camera built, tested, and developed in partnership with NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, whose images will be used to estimate ...

Interlune aims to excavate huge amounts of the lunar soil (or regolith), process it and extract the helium-3 gas, which it would then ship back to Earth. Alongside its proprietary lunar harvester ...

Interlune said in the release it will use the NASA grant to test its harvester in a simulated lunar environment, with the goal of scaling the technology to handle multiple tons of lunar soil.

Natural resources company Interlune and industrial equipment manufacturer Vermeer Corporation today unveiled the full-scale prototype of the Interlune excavator, a machine designed to ingest 100 ...

SEATTLE, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Interlune, a natural resources company, today announced its first commercial customer. Maybell Quantum, the quantum infrastructure company, has agreed to ...

Interlune was founded by two former employees of Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, a still secretive space startup said to be planning to launch its first orbital rocket later this year.

Interlune wants to mine several dozen kilograms of helium-3 per year He assumes that the company will be able to mine several dozen kilograms of helium-3 per year in the future and return it to Earth.

Interlune, a natural resources company, and Astrolab, a multi-planetary mobility and logistics company, today announced that an Interlune payload will fly on Astrolab's FLEX Lunar Innovation ...