Progress toward permanent useful presence on the Moon

Manonthestreet

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Paris, France, September 19, 2022 – Today at the 73rd International Astronautical Congress in Paris, Astrobotic announced LunaGrid, a commercial power service for the poles of the Moon. LunaGrid is a power generation and distribution service that will deliver power by the watt to landers, rovers, habitats, science suites, and other lunar surface systems. The service will enable space agencies’, companies’, and nonprofits’ systems to survive the lunar night and operate indefinitely on the Moon starting at the lunar south pole. Announcing LunaGrid, a Commercial Power Service for the Moon | Astrobotic Technology
"Intuitive Machines is excited to play a critical role in providing technologies and services to establish long-term lunar infrastructure and commerce," Intuitive Machines co-founder Kam Ghaffarian said.

"What's different this time is that the U.S. government has astutely chosen to utilize partnerships with the private sector to accomplish its goals more quickly and more cost-effectively," Ghaffarian said. Intuitive Machines to go public on Nasdaq with acquisition company

Long time coming...lets go.....Thank you Elon
 
Why? It is such a waste of money and you can bet taxpayers will foot most of it.
 

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