Media Advisory – Canadian Space Agency announces Aqualunar Challenge semi‑finalists
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:
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.
Useful links
The Aqualunar Challenge Challenge | Impact Canada
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