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Strip mining moon is the easy part. Manufacturing anything used for satellites is the very hard part. It is very hard as is seen from number of players here on earth. But just imagine doing everything in hostile environment with significantly smaller benefits of scale.

Might be possible theoretically. But certain infeasible in any level of practise.

>>Ekaros+(OP)
> Strip mining moon is the easy part.

Is it easy though?

The moon surface is full of nasty regolith that can jam up machines pretty quickly. Plus the lack of atmosphere means that any small particle you accelerate fast enough goes into a partial orbit around the moon and hits you on its way back.

>>perlge+2X
Relatively to refining that stuff to anything useful on moon or in space. You have same trouble and then lot more.