17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... producing water on the Moon, the process involves separating ilmenite – a compound which contains iron, titanium and oxygen (FeTiO3) – from lunar soil, crushing it to a fine powder and then heating it in an enclosed reaction vessel in the presence...
26 July 2021
Israel’s Helios to ride on ispace lunar lander to make oxygen on the Moon
... missions to the moon to demonstrate in situ extraction of oxygen and metal that can be used as fuel and material ... of material into orbit. Being able to successfully extract oxygen in appreciable quantities will drastically reduce the cost of initial...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
... cosmo-chemistry can take shape. The authors would also like This first detection of extragalactic molecular oxygen will go some way in helping scientists to understand the role O2 plays in cosmo-chemistry Further observations of O2 in other galaxies...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... Support System (ECLSS) currently employed onboard the ISS. Space to breath On Earth more than 50 percent of the oxygen we breath is produced by algae in our oceans, so why not try to duplicate those biological processes as a life support system...
16 May 2018
Astronomers find stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
... years after the Universe began. The discovery of the oldest oxygen signal ever detected by any telescope is a tantalising one, ...the frontiers of the observable Universe.” Along with the ancient oxygen signal, the VLT also picked up a weaker signal of...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... settlements, mineral prospecting, setting up communications and navigation aids, assembling engineering units for drawing water and oxygen from the lunar regolith, and so on. Lunar regolith is an intriguing resource both for its mineral content and...
