SEATTLE and PELLA, Iowa, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural resources company Interlune and industrial equipment manufacturer Vermeer Corporation today unveiled the full-scale prototype of the ...

An Iowa industrial equipment manufacturer took a giant leap in the effort to harvest natural resources from space.Pella-based Vermeer Corp. and Interlune, a Seattle, Washington-based natural resources ...

Iowa-based Vermeer Corp. has partnered with Interlune to create a lunar excavator. The excavator is designed to collect 100 metric tons of moon dirt per hour to harvest rare helium-3. After winning ...

The harvest is already delayed by about two-and-a-half months The main sugar mill in the region suffered millions of dollars of flood damage The soils have not had time to dry out, even months later ...

Excavation is the first in a four-step proprietary system to harvest natural resources from space: Excavate, Sort, Extract, and Separate. The Interlune excavator operates continuously and its design ...