Metalysis have recently held a mid-term workshop with the competing teams, who have entered the Metalysis – ESA Grand Challenge. The article can be accessed via the ESA link.
This article originally appeared on The European Space Agency’s website here On the left side of this before and after image is a pile of simulated lunar soil, or regolith; on the right is the same pile after essentially all the oxygen has been extracted from it, leaving a mixture of metal alloys. Both the oxygen and metal could be…