Helios Project

Developing technologies to extract and utilize metals and oxygen from martian and lunar soil, providing fuel and construction materials for future space missions.

Created: 2019-11-16

Updated: 2021-07-31

Classification

ISRU, Raw Materials & Mining

Category

Resources - Oxygen
Resources - Metal

Fields

Raw Materials

Status

4) Early stage

First launch

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Process is called Molten Regolith Electrolysis – melting the lunar regolith (soil) and electrolyzing it to separate the vast amount of oxygen from the various metals that constitute the regolith. 
The Israeli company Helios, which develops technology for extracting oxygen from the lunar soil, signed the first Israeli-Japanese agreement for technological cooperation on July 19. Helios, with the support of the Israel Space Agency in the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, will be integrated into the mission to the moon of the Japanese company ispace. As part of the mission, the Israeli company will conduct a demonstration of technology for extracting oxygen and metal from the lunar regolith.

[1] https://project-helios.space/

[2] https://www.spacebandits.io/interviews/helios