NGen launches program to support Canada’s development of lunar mining solutions

NGen is an industry-led not-for-profit organization that leads the Canadian Advanced Manufacturing Global Innovation Cluster. Its mission is to help build world-leading advanced manufacturing capabilities to benefit Canadians.

The organization seeks projects with dual-use applications to strengthen Canada’s technological leadership in space and help revitalize the long-term competitiveness of the country’s key industrial sectors.

The M4M3 program is expected to deliver the next generation of innovations that will help address the challenges of continuing human presence on the Moon, leveraging Canada’s strengths in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum sensing, and additive manufacturing, and enabling applications on Earth application.

NGen says these innovations will have a direct and positive impact on environmental sustainability, productivity, talent, and job creation in Canada’s mining, energy, and advanced manufacturing sectors.

The program is being developed with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) following an announcement of the opportunity. NGen’s call for projects will support ISRU’s solutions and commercialization in the following areas: mining, critical minerals, and manufacturing.

“NGen aims to leverage Canada’s expertise in space and advanced manufacturing technologies to develop world-leading solutions for lunar resource development while providing vital Canadian manufacturing capabilities,” said Jayson Myers, CEO of NGen. And the competitiveness of the mining industry.”

“These dual-use applications require new solutions that put Canada at the forefront of industrial innovation in space and Earth.”