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NASA awards US firm $47mn to land water-measuring payload on Moon – Daijiworld.com
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS): NASA has awarded Houston-based Intuitive Machines approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022.
The payload will land on the Moon and drill up to approximately one metre below the surface.
It will measure with a mass spectrometer how much ice in the sample is lost to sublimation as the ice turns from a solid to a vapor in the vacuum of the lunar environment.
The delivery of the payload, called Polar Reso…
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