AS MOON INTEREST HEATS UP, TWO COMPANIES UNVEIL PLANS FOR A LUNAR “HARVESTER”

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Astrolab and Interlune are forming a partnership to build a fleet of electric harvesters to excavate, extract, and separate Helium-3 from lunar regolith on the Moon. The companies have not announced when they are scheduled to deploy an initial harvester, but both are working toward that goal. Astrolab's FLEX rover will likely be one of the first payloads on the first SpaceX Starship mission to the lunar surface. Helium-3 doesn't occur naturally on Earth. It has several applications, but the most near-term use is in cryogenics.