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India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole (www.newscientist.com)

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India has launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission, which aims to explore the south pole of the moon by rover, completing a scientific mission that was first attempted in 2019 but ended in catastrophic failure due to a software glitch

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[–] thatcasualgamingguy@lemmy.nerdcore.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't Helium-3 mainly used for fusion reactors? So as long as fusion reactors are still just in an early prototype phase, such a mining operation is probably not really lucrative.

[–] McBinary@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is a lot of countries in the world that still use nuclear fusion, and despite doomsayers it's still the best option for the future...

edit: to correct Fission > Fusion