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NASA awards US firm $47M to land water-measuring payload on Moon
short by Aishwarya Awasthi / on Saturday, 17 October, 2020
NASA has awarded US-based Intuitive Machines approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022. The payload, PRIME-1, will help NASA search for ice at the Moon's South Pole and harvest ice from below the surface. PRIME-1 will measure how much ice in the sample is lost to sublimation on Moon.
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