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How to Make the Best Decisions (on the Moon)

Pharma industries, transportation services, the energy sector, and mining companies are looking for a new place to do business, and it’s more than 200,000 miles from Earth.

The private sector is heading to the Moon – a world of potential resources like metal, water, and solar power, according to our guest on this week’s Here’s an Idea: Blair DeWitt, CEO and Co-founder of the Massachusetts-based Lunar Station Corporation. 

“When you look at how private enterprise globally is starting to see the Moon the way we’ve seen it for years, they’re seeing it as our eighth continent,” said DeWitt in our Here’s an Idea podcast.

With his company’s data intelligence, DeWitt wants to answer two critical questions for this next generation of explorers: Where to look for resources, and how to get there. 

Learn about future lunar missions, and the role Lunar Station wants to play in them.

Listen to this episode of Here’s an Idea below. 

Watch a demo from DeWitt of the MoonHacker software.

Subscribe  to the Here's an Idea podcast on Apple Podcasts  or Spotify  . 

Topics:
Aerospace Automation Data Acquisition Robotics Spacecraft

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    00:00:05 is this the lunar surface yep yep uh this is a particular spot if you wanted to know like where on the moon are we looking it's right there what if we laid out the sun so you could see exactly like in this lz here's where your sunlight is going to come from in the morning midday and at the end of day if you miss this landing spot

    00:00:27 your best alternative is over here but if you're down range not only are you in trouble from a slow perspective but you're losing sunlight and of course no one wants to go in the crater but you really got to stick this landing um and and so this is uh just one of thousands of requests

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