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China's $18 billion magnetic space launcher to revolutionize moon mining for Helium-3 to power nuclear fusion and fix Earth's energy crisis

Chinese scientists proposed a moonshot plan to build a magnetic launcher for a low-cost way to haul lunar resources back to Earth, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday. The device dubbed a …

Chinese scientists are planning to build an $18 billion magnetic space device to fling resources back to Earth in hopes of fixing the planet’s energy crisis, according to a new report. The launcher, dubbed a magnetic levitation facility by researchers at Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, will work like an Olympic hammer thrower by spinning before launching space material toward Earth, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday. Shutterstock / Dima ZelThe plan could be linked to China’s joint space venture with Russia, in which the two countries proposed a research station to be built on the lunar south pole by 2035.

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