{"id":182320,"date":"2024-08-25T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/?p=182320"},"modified":"2024-08-23T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:57:01","slug":"extract-water-from-the-moon-financing","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/extract-water-from-the-moon-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Starpath to extract water from the moon thanks to $12 million in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starpath Robotics, has secured <strong>seed funding of $12 million<\/strong>.\nThe company, which has been developing advanced technology for <strong>harvesting water from the Moon<\/strong>, plans to use these funds to <strong>accelerate its plans for lunar mining and liquid oxygen (LOX) production.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harvesting oxygen and water from the Moon<\/h2>\n\n<p>LOX, refined from lunar ice <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/molecules-water-sample-lunar-probe-change-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"174047\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lunar ice<\/a><\/strong>is vital for space missions, as it is used as an oxidizer in rockets and spacecraft.\nStarpath has an ambitious vision: with fleets of mining vehicles and autonomous processing plants, they plan to <strong>collect and process large quantities of lunar regolith, extract water, and produce liquid oxygen, <\/strong>all powered by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/video-tv\/paneles-solares-de-diamante\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"video-tv\" data-id=\"171070\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solar energy<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n<p>Starpath CEO Saurav Shroff has highlighted that with this capital injection, the company is closer to its first demonstration mission, <strong>planned to collect 100 tons of LOX per year<\/strong>. Shroff also mentions that this technology could be key for future <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/video-tv\/descubren-yacimiento-de-agua-en-marte\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"video-tv\" data-id=\"122983\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">missions to Mars<\/a><\/strong>facilitating the development of interplanetary infrastructures.<\/p>\n\n<p>The financing was led by 8VC and Fusion Fund, with the participation of other firms such as Day One Ventures and Indicator Ventures.\nThis investment will enable <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/starpathspace_starpath-accelerates-moon-water-mining-plans-activity-7231705096483471360-P0WB\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/starpathspace_starpath-accelerates-moon-water-mining-plans-activity-7231705096483471360-P0WB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starpath<\/a><\/strong> improve its technology, expand its team and pave the way for future missions that could change the future of space exploration. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/video-tv\/descubren-cueva-lunar-posible-refugio-humano\/\" data-type=\"video-tv\" data-id=\"172976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">space exploration.<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Follow us on social networks and don&#8217;t miss any of our publications!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@inspenet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inspenet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Inspenetnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source and photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/08\/20\/starpath-accelerates-moon-water-mining-plans-with-12m-seed-funding\/?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Techcrunch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 1,000 tons of liquid oxygen per year, Starpath could resupply several lunar missions, including multiple flights of SpaceX&#8217;s Starship spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9014,"featured_media":181770,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13064,13030],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-182320","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-aerospace","categoria_noticias-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/182320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/182320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=182320"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=182320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}