"A British company has won a contract to extract oxygen from rocks on the moon. Metalysis in Rotherham, which extracts metals from metal oxides trapped within minerals for the electronics, aviation and automotive industries, has been granted a contract worth about £250,000 by the European Space Agency (ESA) to adapt its technique to moon rock." Read more from The Times...
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"A British firm has won a European Space Agency contract to develop the technology to turn moon dust and rocks into oxygen, leaving behind aluminium, iron and other metal powders for lunar construction workers to build with." Read more from The Guardian
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Metalysis, the end to end manufacturer of premium, solid-state metal and alloy powders, has been awarded European Space Agency (ESA) funding, contract number 4000131940, for its project titled, “The Metalysis FFC Process for Extra-Terrestrial Oxygen Production from ISRU,” which forms part of ESA’s Space Resources Strategy and carried out under the General Support Technology Programme of, and funded by, the...
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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…
Metalysis (or “the Company”), which has a disruptive technology for solid-state metals and novel alloys production, has signed a joint research and development programme (“the R&D Programme”) with an international partner, to co-create a high value aluminium-scandium alloy. The R&D Programme will investigate the use of Metalysis’ electrochemical technology to provide a scandium-rich feedstock addition, supporting master alloy production. Aluminium-scandium…
Metalysis project entitled ‘The Metalysis FFC Process for Extra-Terrestrial Oxygen Production from In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU)’ has been featured in Materials Today. "An initial proof of concept study of Metalysis’ process resulted in a material with 96% of the total oxygen successfully extracted, for potential use in propellants and life support consumables, and a mixed metal alloy product that can,...
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Metalysis was featured in an article in the Institution of Mechanical Engineers magazine Professional Engineering, entitled “Mining The Moon – The Next Frontier for Engineering Innovation”.
The acticle can be accessed via the following link:
FEATURE: Mining the Moon – the next frontier for engineering innovation (imeche.org)
https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/mining-the-moon-the-next-frontier-for-engineering-innovation
ESA and Metalysis announce team Malt as winner of the first phase of the Grand Challenge to develop innovative techniques for future lunar settlements. Metalysis is thanking everyone who participated in this challenge and helped make it a success! “ESA’s Grand Challenge fosters New Space initiatives in Europe and this brings us into contact with dynamic start-up companies such as…
CAREER : PRODUCTION OPERATIVE VACANCY Metalysis is currently recruiting for enthusiastic, passionate, and driven individuals to be involved in a unique opportunity, operating our Pilot and Production scale metal powder production units. Your role will include the running and maintenance of equipment to operating parameters set by the process owners, for the manufacture of specialised metal powders and alloys, including...
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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.
"Scientists from Rotherham have won a contract from the European Space Agency to develop a process to mine oxygen from moon rock. The firm Metalysis will spend nine-months to develop the technology, which will be used on the moon over the next five years." Read and watch more from ITV
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