In situ resource utilization
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In space exploration, in situ resource utilization is the practice of collection, processing, storing and use of materials found or manufactured on other astronomical objects that replace materials th
ISRU Pilot Excavator – A NASA project
Sabatier reaction
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The Sabatier reaction or Sabatier process produces methane and water from a reaction of hydrogen with carbon dioxide at elevated temperatures and pressures in the presence of a nickel catalyst. It was
In situ resource utilization
…propellant made using lunar resources, and proposals include reacting the aluminum with water. For Mars, methane propellant can be manufactured via the Sabatier process. SpaceX has suggested building a propellant plant on Mars that would use this process to produce methane (CH 4) and liquid oxygen (O2) from…
Paul Sabatier (1854–1941), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 and discoverer of the reaction in 1897