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"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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"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...
Read More"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
Read MoreMetalysis, 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...
Read MoreThis 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…