Excavation is the first in a four-step proprietary system to harvest natural resources from space: Excavate, Sort, Extract, and Separate. The Interlune excavator operates continuously and its design ...
Iowa-based industrial equipment manufacturer Vermeer has debuted a full-scale prototype of a lunar excavator as part of a joint development partnership with startup Interlune. The vehicle is intended ...
An Iowa industrial equipment manufacturer took a giant leap in the effort to harvest natural resources from space.Pella-based Vermeer Corp. and Interlune, a Seattle, Washington-based natural resources ...
Iowa-based Vermeer Corp. has partnered with Interlune to create a lunar excavator. The excavator is designed to collect 100 metric tons of moon dirt per hour to harvest rare helium-3. After winning ...