JAKARTA – The British Space Agency has launched the Aqualunar Challenge, international funding for startup who wants to develop technology to purify water from ice buried on the Moon.
The Aqualunar Challenge is a collaboration between the British Space Agency and Challenge Works, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and Impact Canada. These four institutions will provide funds amounting to 1.2 million euros (Rp. 20.4 billion).
This award will be given to startup who created the best technology design and was registered as a participant in the Aqualunar Challenge. Next June, the British Space Agency will select the ten best innovations.
These ten designs will be given initial funding of IDR 511,374 to develop their ideas. Once the ideas are developed, the British Space Agency and partners will select three teams as winners and runner up.
These three teams will receive the remaining funds of IDR 5.1 billion each. The ideas they created still have to be developed and perfected to support the Artemis mission, namely landing and exploration on the Moon.
British Space Agency CEO Paul Bate said that the Aqualunar Challenge would generate ideas that would benefit humanity. Even though it was created for the benefit of the Moon, this technology also has an impact on the Earth.
“Technology developed for space exploration has a successful history of finding new uses on Earth. “The UK plays an important role in the NASA-led Artemis Mission,” Bate said in an official statement.
Meanwhile, Minister of Space, Department of Science, Innovation and Technology Andrew Griffith said that the Aqualunar Challenge was a forum for startup space technology to develop with great ideas.
“The Aqualunar Challenge demonstrates our commitment to collaborating on space innovation, unlocking commercial opportunities, supporting lunar exploration, and building on our important relationship with Canada,” said Griffith.
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2024-01-22 10:30:00
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