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Julian Dossett

DARPA wants a spacecraft to search for water on the moon

Composite image of the moon created using data gathered by the joint NASA-DoD Clementine mission in 1994.

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water.

A program solicitation that DARPA released on April 14 outlines the plan for the LASSO (Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter) program, with the goal of developing a system of one or several affordable satellites.

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