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DARPA requests proposals for water-prospecting lunar orbiter (spacenews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] llamacoffee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

map the lunar surface for concentrations of water ice “that are large enough and with a high enough confidence to justify the expense and energy required to retrieve it,”

Wow, sounds like they're pretty serious about this.