Blue Origin Plans A Pair Of Low-Flying Prospectors Around The Lunar South Pole

Blue Origin Plans A Pair Of Low-Flying Prospectors Around The Lunar South Pole
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/PhtN94f)

The water locked up in the Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) of the Moon’s south pole is a critical resource if we are ever going to get a permanent lunar presence off the ground. But while we know the water ice there exists, we don’t really know how much. We have to move from general estimates to mineable-scale prospecting data. That is what Oasis-1, the newly proposed lunar prospecting mission from Blue Origin that was recently introduced at the 2026 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) is meant to do.

April 6, 2026 at 11:21PM
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