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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