Propellant Source
Is there water/ice on the South Pole? Well it is not conclusive. There are other sources and this needs to be verified before the appropriate equipment can be shipped.
Groups Currently Engaged
- NASA Lunar Recon Orbiter 2008 - Crash land in Shackleton Crater at the South Pole to study results
- JAXA/Germany Aerospace Centre Selene 2007 - Scan Polar Regions
- Indian Space Research CHANDRAYAAN-1 2008 - Scan Polar Regions
- China National Space Administration Chang'e 2007 - Scan Lunar Soil, search for helium-3
- British National Space Centre MoonLight 2010 - Launch Probe into lunar crater to study moon core
- Odyssey Moon Limited X-Prize competitor - Launch Lander to the Moon, could look for propellant