Canadian Space Agency announces Aqualunar Challenge semi finalists
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Longueuil, Quebec, — 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:
| Organization | Location | Project name |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | The Lunar Ice Water and Resource Recovery System (LIWARS) |
| Lotic Technologies Inc. | Leduc, Alberta | Electro-Catalytic Advanced Oxidation Process (EC-AOP) for Lunar Water Purification |
| 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.
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