1 | Introduction and Overview The Aqualunar Challenge, a collaborative initiative between the UK Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, aims to develop innovative technologies for extracting and purifying water from the Moon's surface. It comprises two tracks, the UK track with a total of £1.2 million prize and the Canadian track with a total of $1M CAD that will be awarded in grant funding to UK and Canadian space tech companies respectively. The joint initiative aims to find solutions t…