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New Technology Designed to Extract Oxygen from Lunar Soil Unveiled

Goal is to Enable Sustainable Human Presence on the Moon

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Tom Patton
Sep 19, 2024
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A proprietary Carbothermal Oxygen Production Reactor developed by Sierra Space has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, heralding the first time in history that oxygen has been extracted from simulated lunar soil, or regolith, using an automated, standalone system in a lunar environment. The technology, when scal…

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