Our project was mentioned in an article in Wroclaw’s newspaper, that discusses the importance and benefits of the Horizon Europe program, which funds research and innovative projects with significant impacts on the economy, society, and the environment. The article highlights the availability of free support for applicants in certain regions of Poland. LUWEX project, funded […]
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Stakeholder Workshop “From the MOON to EARTH” Recap
On June 18, 2024, we successfully hosted an online stakeholder workshop titled “From the MOON to EARTH – How water technologies developed for the Moon can help our everyday life on Earth.” This event was a key part of WP5.2 – Potential Terrestrial Applications Investigation, focusing on identifying market potentials for transforming LUWEX-developed technologies into […]
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EuroScience Open Forum
On June 13, Karol Leluk from the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology LUWEX team presented a poster about the LUWEX project at the EuroScience Open Forum, held in Katowice, Poland, from June 12-15, 2024. Here is a link to the poster in pdf: https://luwex.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LUWEX_EuroScience-Open-Forum.pdf Link to the event website: https://www.esof.eu/pl Link […]
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From the MOON to EARTH – Online workshop
We would like to invite you to our online workshop “From the MOON to EARTH – How water technologies developed for the Moon can help our everyday life on Earth” We will discuss with experts from all over the world about leveraging space systems for our terrestrial life. The workshop takes place on Tuesday 18th […]
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The Spanish Physicist Who Wants to Get Water from the Moon
On May 2nd, our team member Mateo Rejón López was interviewed about the LUWEX project by Judith de Jorge of ABC Ciencia. Title: El físico español que quiere sacar agua de la luna / The Spanish physicist who wants to get water from the moon What is it about: Mateo Rejón participates in a pioneering […]
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Press release 2
European project tests groundbreaking water extraction from lunar dust for the first time. LUWEX laboratory, TU Braunschweig, photo: LUWEX consortium European Union-backed project LUWEX develops a pioneering system that enables the extraction of water from lunar regolith, a crucial step in advancing space exploration and sustaining human presence on the Moon. Under the lead of […]
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Space Resource Week 2024
The entire LUWEX project was represented by the DLR this year at the Space Resources Week 2024 in Luxembourg. During the 3-day event, the LUWEX project was presented by Paul Zabel and Luca Kiewiet during the ISRU: Water Operations session. Below’s a recording of a presentation: Watch on YouTube On top of that, during the […]
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Water Purification System Breadboard
Here are some updates from TASI, developing Water Purification System Breadboard (WPS). ^ Module level configuration showing breadboard left side and including inletand outlet water bottles installed on top of load cells (detached). ^ Breadboard equipped with all necessary auxiliary components, such as inletand outlet bottles ,load cells, fluidic piping and electrical connection cable. ^ […]
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1st Year Review Meeting
On 9 November the LUWEX team met in Bremen for the 1st Year Review Meeting. Each partner gave presentation on the recent developments and progress. The technical session covered: Overview of overall system Systems Engineering Giorgio, Extraction, Capturing and Liquefaction Infrastructure and Regolith-Ice Simulant Purification and Storage Quality and Condition Monitoring – Probes and LIBS […]
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Cold trap experiments
To get water from lunar icy-regolith, one needs to extract it and then capture it. For the LUWEX project, we designed a cold trap water vapour capturing system, and through this experiment, verified that the functional design of the cold trap works. The cold trap operates under a near vacuum (only a small atmosphere of […]
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