The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy
arstechnica.com
You know the military is serious when the guy running the program is nicknamed "Orbit."

In December, DARPA announced that it was working with 14 different companies under LunA-10, including major space players such as Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, as well as non-space firms such as Nokia. These companies are assessing how services such as power and communications could be established on the Moon, and they’re due to provide a final report by June.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    DARPA (Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency, DoD
    DoD US Department of Defense
    SLS Space Launch System heavy-lift

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