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LunaPure Lunar Water Purification

LunaPure is a self-contained, low-maintenance lunar-water purification concept. The Canadian Space Agency selected CSMC as its Aqualunar Challenge grand-prize winner in April 2026 and awarded further development support; the competition result does not establish lunar deployment.

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Development-stage lunar water-purification system

What it enables

Core features

Self-contained purification concept
Low-maintenance design objective
Treatment of potential lunar-water contaminants
Aqualunar Challenge grand-prize winner

Defence and security uses

Lunar life support
Water purification for sustained lunar exploration

What supports this profile

CSA announces LunaPure Aqualunar grand prize (opens in a new tab)
Canadian Space Agency · innovation program
The Canadian Space Agency selected CSMC as Aqualunar Challenge grand-prize winner after three stages and announced $400,000 to continue LunaPure development. The concept is a self-contained, low-maintenance sustainable lunar-water purification system. The award establishes competitive selection and continuing development, not lunar deployment or commercial availability.
CSMC wins the Canadian Space Agency Aqualunar Challenge (opens in a new tab)
Canadian Space Agency · innovation program
The Canadian Space Agency identifies LunaPure as the Aqualunar grand-prize-winning, self-contained and low-maintenance system for purifying water from lunar polar regions.
Northern Operational Support Hubs (opens in a new tab)
National Defence · government service page
The program identifies access and logistical constraints that limit faster, longer, and more effective Arctic operations and calls for hubs, nodes, transportation corridors, facilities, pre-positioned materiel, and multi-modal support.
Security, Sovereignty and Prosperity: Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy (opens in a new tab)
Department of National Defence · official policy
The proposed after-state combines the existing hub-and-node operational outcome with the strategy's domestic-partner, industrial-resilience and northern-infrastructure context.
Minister Blair announces First Northern Operational Support Hub locations (opens in a new tab)
National Defence · government service page
The first-location announcement says scalable infrastructure and logistical stations should extend operational reach, reduce constraints, enable rapid activation, and sustain greater year-round military presence in the Arctic.

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LunaPure Lunar Water Purification

What it enables

Core features

Defence and security uses

What sets it apart

Evidence of maturity

Where this capability could contribute.

Released Defence needs

Arctic operational reach and sustainment

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What it enables

Core features

Defence and security uses

What sets it apart

Evidence of maturity

Where this capability could contribute.

Released Defence needs

Arctic operational reach and sustainment

What still needs verification

Continue from the capability to the wider record

Organizations

Mission and ecosystem paths

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