October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
...was measured in the 5-10 percent range. Water’s constituents, oxygen and hydrogen, when separated and liquified, are the most... which purifies the water and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen, followed by liquification into propellants. There is a set ...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... short time before start of operations in order to minimise issues with the storage of pure hydrogen and oxygen. Schematic illustrating current knowledge of the small-scale physical and thermal structure and processes relevant to Enceladus’ ...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...experiment, a test unit designed to create breathable oxygen (O2) from the CO2 and possibly oxidiser propellant from the...be created to serve supply ships, together with water and useful oxygen for the Mars base. Of course, the available CO2 on ...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... an experiment called MOXIE that will attempt, for the first time, to convert a sample of Martian atmosphere into oxygen. Proving this technology is a first step toward extended human habitation. In a nutshell, it’s the expeditionary model versus the...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... and the reaction can be accelerated by a catalyst. At elevated temperatures, nitrous oxide supports combustion and the free oxygen available from its decomposition can be used with a wide variety of fuels: for example, it reacts hypergolically with...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
...blocks for construction, and the extraction of hydrogen, oxygen and water as raw commodities. Terrestrial solar concentrators ...the concentrators to extract metals in addition to hydrogen, oxygen and water, and/or sinter regolith. All components need...
