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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced that starting today and through November 28 they will be hosting an Aqualunar Challenge Innovator Bootcamp.
The CSA stated that the Bootcamp is open to the Aqualunar Challenge’s Canadian semi-finalists as well as the UK finalists.
The Aqualunar Challenge was announced on January 17 of this year by the CSA who are working in collaboration with Impact Canada from the Privy Council Office.
The Canadian semi-finalists include:
- 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, BC) – 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 University/McGill Advanced bio-Regenerative Toolkit for Long Excursion Trips (MARTLET) (Montreal, Quebec) – Polar Utilization for Future Industry Needs (PUFFIN)
The CSA said the “bootcamp will include expert-led discussions, collaborative workshop sessions, informational seminars, and opportunities for networking between innovators and industry representatives.”
Four semi-finalists will be selected to move on to Stage 3 and will receive $105,000 each. The Grand Winner will receive $400,000.
