Seattle Startup Plans to Mine the Moon for Helium-3 to Power Quantum Tech
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Seattle startup Interlune raised $15M to harvest helium-3 from the Moon to sell to government and companies for quantum computing, medical imaging, etc.
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Interlune was founded by former Blue Origin executives and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt.
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Interlune aims to launch robotic lunar landers to verify helium-3 levels at chosen lunar sites for initial mining operations.
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2015 law allows companies to own resources extracted from space.
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NASA also plans lunar mining in the next decade, targeting water, iron, rare metals to support Artemis program.