Study will extract oxygen from Moon rock regolith

摘要

Efforts to colonise the Moon could be given a significant boost with technology that extracts oxygen from Moon rock To this end, Thales Alenia Space has signed a {EUR}1m study contract with the European Space Agency for a payload concept to do just that. For a sustainable habitation on the Moon, humans will need to utilise resources that they find on the Moon rather than transport these resources from Earth; one of these resources is oxygen.