Moon Water

Collecting Moon Water using SpaceX's Starship is super exciting! Starship has a payload capacity of approximately 100 metric tons for both delivery and return. This project will be connected to NASA's Artemis program, deploying robotic excavators, drills, or scoops to harvest water ice from the Moon. The collected Moon ice will be loaded into insulated, sealed tanks designed to maintain cryogenic temperatures, and prevent sublimation during the vacuum of space transit. Starship ascends directly from the lunar surface using its Raptor engines, then sets up a direct Earth-return trajectory. On arrival, the Moon water (kept cryo-frozen in insulated tanks) stays protected inside the payload bay as Starship performs a controlled atmospheric reentry, with its heat shield tiles handling the peak heating to enable safe recovery via Ocean splashdown.