{"id":214248,"date":"2025-05-18T10:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:03:35","slug":"mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMining the Moon Begins\u201d: US Firm\u2019s Robot to Extract Rare Helium-3 and Launch Payloads Back to Earth for Futuristic Energy Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf15 Interlune, a Seattle-based startup, plans to extract helium-3 from the moon, aiming to revolutionize clean energy and quantum computing. \ud83d\ude80 The company has developed a prototype excavator capable of digging up to ten feet into lunar soil, refining helium-3 directly on the moon for efficiency. \ud83d\udd0b Helium-3 offers potential for nuclear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf15 Interlune, a Seattle-based startup, plans to extract helium-3 from the moon, aiming to revolutionize clean energy and quantum computing. \ud83d\ude80 The company has developed a prototype excavator capable of digging up to ten feet into lunar soil, refining helium-3 directly on the moon for efficiency. \ud83d\udd0b Helium-3 offers potential for nuclear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1617,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214248","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}