The billionaire 'mined' the Moon aims to earn trillions of dollars

An American billionaire has been "green-lighted" by the government in launching autonomous exploration equipment to the Moon and exploiting the surface in search of gold, platinum worth trillions of dollars.

Moon Express - the first private company in history to receive permission from the government to fly out of Earth's orbit - announced on January 31 to attract an additional investment of $ 20 million to deploy the task. Moon mining, will be implemented at the end of 2017. This number brings the total investment in the project to 45 million USD.

The company's current challenge is to create self-propelled mining equipment that must meet the requirements of Google's XPrize tournament organizers: Gently land on the Moon, move at least 500 m on the surface and transfer high quality images and videos back to Earth. All tasks must be completed before the end of the year.

If successful, Moon Express's Moon- self-propelled self-explorer MX-1 not only won the $ 20 million Google XPrize award but also opened a new era in space exploration. . It will create a precedent when the Moon missions have all been done and taken from the government.

Moon Express was the first private company to receive government approval for the task of exploring the Moon.

Last year, the US government set a historic law to allow private companies to participate in the Moon discovery process, after discussing with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the White House. , Department of Foreign Affairs and US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).

According to the co-founder and president of Naveen Jain, "Moon Express currently has enough basic capital to bring the company's compact robotic aircraft to land on the Moon in November and December." . The company's goal is two parts: One is to dig deep into the surface of the Moon to find valuable resources, such as Helium-3, gold, platinum group metals, rare elements on Earth and water source; The second is to help researchers develop the "colonization" process on this space for future human generations.

Finding Helium-3 on the Moon can have a huge impact on the Earth and the environment. Helium-3 is a clean, non-radioactive energy source capable of fueling reactors. In theory, a small amount of Helium-3 acts as a clean fuel that can release energy and supply it to all industries, if not the entire green planet.

One of the other goals of the Moon landing this time by Moon Express is finding water here. If a water source is found, scientists can separate hydrogen and oxygen elements separately, thereby creating the necessary fuel to serve explorers to further planets like Mars. Under a client's way, the Moon became a refueling station for later space spacecraft.

One of the other goals of the Moon landing this time by Moon Express is finding water here.

With support from the government, Moon Express is now able to access NASA's technical expertise. In addition, the company was granted a loan license for launchers 17 and 18 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base to carry out its mission. The 6-year startup project with a team of 30 people has attracted investment capital from private companies, billionaires and the scientific research community.

To win the Google Lunar XPrize prize and see who will first set foot on the Moon, Moon Express will have to compete with Israel's SpaceIL, India's Team Inus. Meanwhile, other great powers such as China and Russia have also prepared themselves to deploy their own Moon mining mission. In 2018, China is expected to send Chang'e-4 equipment to the dark part of the Moon to investigate, while the Russian Federal Space Agency plans to build a space research station at here.