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Israeli startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil – J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
An Israeli startup has developed technology to produce oxygen from the lunar soil.
An Israeli startup has developed technology to produce oxygen from the lunar soil.
Full moon. Oct 18, 2016. Photo by Kobi Richter/TPS
The project, Helios, has been awarded funding from the Israeli Space Agency and the Israeli Ministry of Energy to develop a system that will be launched in two space missions over the next three years.
Helios technology will produce oxygen from the lunar surface by means of a soil-fed reactor in addition to other various metals. The process does not require consumable…
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