ROXY turns Moon dust into Oxygen

New technology from Airbus achieves breakthrough chemical reduction process which opens new horizons in human space exploration and could lead to emission-free method for producing metals on Earth.

An international team led by Airbus Defense and Space (Friedrichshafen, Germany) with scientists from Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM (Dresden, Germany), Boston University (Uday Pal) and Abengoa Innovación (Seville, Spain) has successfully demonstrated the production of oxygen and metals from simulated lunar dust (regolith) with the Airbus-invented process named ROXY (Regolith to Oxygen and Metals Conversion). Airbus believes ROXY could revolutionize human space exploration. Currently the project is funded by the European Space Agency.