NASA awards US firm $47M to land water-measuring payload on Moon

NASA has awarded US-based Intuitive Machines approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022. The payload, PRIME-1, will help NASA search for ice at the Moon's South Pole and harvest ice from below the surface. PRIME-1 will measure how much ice in the sample is lost to sublimation on Moon.