Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1)
The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will be the first in-situ resource utilization demonstration on the Moon.
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PRIME-1 will help scientists search for water at the lunar South Pole, and will be the first in-situ resource utilization demonstration on the Moon.
PRIME-1, which will be mounted to a lunar lander, is made up of two components – The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain (TRIDENT) and the Mass Spectrometer for Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo). NASA selected Intuitive Machines of Houston to fly PRIME-1 to the Moon in December 2022 under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
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