Tokyo-Sana
The Japan Agency for Air and Space Studies has announced that it intends to set up a plant on the surface of the Moon to produce hydrogen fuel by 2035.
According to Kyodo Agency, the Japanese agency will establish the plant in the south polar region of the moon, which contains reserves of water ice from which drinking water will be extracted, as well as oxygen and hydrogen.
The agency stated that the purpose of establishing the factory is to accelerate the process of reclamation of the moon and reduce the expenditures required to transport fuel from the ground to the moon, in addition to providing fuel for missiles that transport people and multiple payloads from the moon's orbit to its surface back and forth.
It is noteworthy that Japan announced last year its decision to join the lunar program of the US space agency NASA and signed an agreement with it for cooperation in the field of moon study.