LONGUEUIL,
QC, July 24, 2024 /CNW/ -
Eight Canadian organizations will begin developing solutions
to purify Moon water as part of the next stage of the Aqualunar
Challenge. Each semi-finalist will
receive a grant of $22,500 to develop
the key components of their prototypes. In turn, their
technology, first intended for space missions, could also help
advance water purification on Earth.
As with space exploration projects, international
collaboration is key to the Aqualunar Challenge. In Canada, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
delivers the competition in collaboration with the Privy
Council Office's Impact Canada, while the United Kingdom Space
Agency and Challenge Works run a similar competition in parallel
for United Kingdom
organizations.
The Canadian semi-finalists are:
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Organization
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Location
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Project name
|
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Canadian Space Mining
Corporation
|
Toronto,
Ontario
|
LunaPure – A
sustainable system to purify lunar water from the lunar polar
regions
|
|
Sixpenny Architectural
Fabrication
|
Toronto,
Ontario
|
Lunarwell
|
|
778 Labs
|
Vancouver, British
Columbia
|
VDO Lunar Water
Purification System
|
|
University of
Calgary
|
Calgary,
Alberta
|
Pure Water from Lunar
Ice: Advancing Water Purification in Space
|
|
WaterPuris
|
Waterloo,
Ontario
|
Extracting and
Purifying Water from Lunar Regolith: Innovating with Cold Trap and
Vapour Membrane Distillation in an Autonomous Multi-Stage
System
|
|
Cimbus Inc.
|
Toronto,
Ontario
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The Lunar Ice Water and
Resource Recovery System (LIWARS)
|
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Lotic Technologies
Inc.
|
Leduc,
Alberta
|
Electro-Catalytic
Advanced Oxidation Process (EC-AOP) for Lunar Water
Purification
|
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McGill Advanced
bio-Regenerative Toolkit for Long Excursion Trips (MARTLET)/McGill
University
|
Montreal,
Quebec
|
Polar Utilization for
Future Industry Needs (PUFFIN)
|
Media interested in speaking with a CSA
expert, or with any of the Canadian semi-finalists, may contact the
media relations office.
Useful links
- The Aqualunar Challenge
- Challenge | Impact Canada
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