{"id":101856,"date":"2020-02-04T03:42:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/inside-the-lab-thats-turning-moon-water-into-rocket-fuel"},"modified":"2020-02-04T03:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:42:51","slug":"inside-the-lab-thats-turning-moon-water-into-rocket-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/inside-the-lab-thats-turning-moon-water-into-rocket-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Lab That\u2019s Turning Moon Water Into Rocket Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7J14vNVUI3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The moon\u2019s water could serve as a precious resource for deep space exploration, but how do we actually turn it into rocket fuel?<br \/> \u00bbSubscribe to Seeker! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker<\/a><br \/> \u00bbWatch more Focal Point | <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2s0cf7w\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2s0cf7w<\/a><br \/> \u00bb Visit our shop at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.seeker.com\">http:\/\/shop.seeker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be a space miner, there are a few things you might need: the sun, some lunar soil, a pretty powerful mirror, and the perfect angle.<\/p>\n<p>Mining for resources on the Moon is no longer the subject of science fiction, instead it is becoming a central focus for the space industry today. In order to explore further in space, it is pertinent we find ways to extract and utilize space resources.<\/p>\n<p>In a recently revealed exploration manifest for the Artemis program, NASA laid out a prospective timeline to establish a sustainable lunar outpost by 2028. And a key technique that\u2019ll help make this whole vision possible is ISRU, or in situ resource utilization.<\/p>\n<p>ISRU means taking and using the resources or the building blocks that already exist in space instead of launching resources on a rocket from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The roadmap to a future propellant depot starts with testing out robotic sampling and drilling systems. And that\u2019s where Honeybee Robotics, a team of space engineers, comes in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/inside-the-lab-thats-turning-moon-water-into-rocket-fuel\">Continue reading \u201cInside the Lab That\u2019s Turning Moon Water Into Rocket Fuel\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon\u2019s water could serve as a precious resource for deep space exploration, but how do we actually turn it into rocket fuel? \u00bbSubscribe to Seeker! http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribeseeker \u00bbWatch more Focal Point | https:\/\/bit.ly\/2s0cf7w \u00bb Visit our shop at http:\/\/shop.seeker.com To be a space miner, there are a few things you might need: the sun, some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}