{"id":644960,"date":"2026-05-03T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:26:29","slug":"canadian-company-tasked-with-purifying-water-on-the-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644960\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian company tasked with purifying water on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Sax from Canadian Strategic Missions Corp. explains how ice from the moon would be extracted and turned into drinking water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) moves towards establishing a permanent presence on the moon, a Canadian company is hoping to solve one of the biggest challenges for astronauts in deep space \u2013 accessing drinkable water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/strategicmissions.ca\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/strategicmissions.ca\/\">Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation<\/a> (CSMC) was recently awarded $400,000 in grant funding after it won the Aqualunar Challenge, led by the Canadian Space Agency in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/impact.canada.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/impact.canada.ca\/en\">Impact Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The challenge aimed to identify innovative companies that could develop technologies \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/sciences\/aqualunar-challenge.asp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/sciences\/aqualunar-challenge.asp\">to purify moon water for human deep-space missions<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CSMC was awarded the grand prize last month for its \u201cLunaPure\u201d technology, which the company says offers a sustainable and low-maintenance system to purify water trapped in the form of ice in the moon\u2019s polar regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur technology takes that frozen water from permanently shut-out craters, and it would melt it utilizing multiple methods of solar energy,\u201d CSMC CEO and founder Daniel Sax told CTV Your Morning on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAnd then purify it by extracting both the razor-sharp lunar dust, as well as all the contaminants that you wouldn\u2019t want to consume in that water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scientists estimate that the moon holds around 600 billion kilograms of water in the form of ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c(The water) comes from a mixture of solar winds, which have deposited it over billions of years into what are called cold traps in the permanently shadowed craters where it never really sees the light of the sun,\u201d said Sax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt is one of the coldest places in the solar system, so it stays frozen. As well, there are water-bearing meteors that actually impact the moon and then it stays in (the form) of frozen water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sax said CSMC is looking to fully develop and test the technology as quickly as possible with the aim of having it available for use in future moon missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He hopes the technology will play a role in NASA\u2019s Artemis program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/article\/jeremy-hansen-challenges-future-generations-to-break-new-artemis-record\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/article\/jeremy-hansen-challenges-future-generations-to-break-new-artemis-record\/\">which last month sent astronauts further into space than ever before<\/a>. The ultimate goal of future Artemis missions is to establish a permanent moon base that hosts humans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAt the same time, we\u2019re developing a nuclear reactor to power those lunar bases,\u201d Sax added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Sax from Canadian Strategic Missions Corp. explains how ice from the moon would be extracted and turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[712,49,48,66],"class_list":["post-644960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}