Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)

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Feb 17, 2021

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Honeybee Robotics Systems Engineer Zach Mank installs TRIDENT on a trolley for thermal vacuum chamber testing. Credits: NASA

The Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) will be the first in-situ resource utilization demonstration on the Moon. PRIME-1 is led by NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1)

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