The promise of In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)-based mission architectures for Mars surface exploration will begin to be realized during the next decade as robotic spacecraft sent to Mars carry components and whole chemical plants for producing propellants from the planet's atmosphere. These chemical plants will need to perform three primary operations: acquisition of atmospheric carbon dioxide, reactions to transform the gas into oxygen and possibly fuel, and storage of the products. This presentation focuses on development of technologies at NASA Ames Research Center for the first of these operations, carbon dioxide acquisition.
Low-Power Temperature-Swing Adsorption for Mars Atmosphere Acquisition
01.01.1999
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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Englisch
UTILISATION OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE CONSTITUENTS BY TEMPERATURE-SWING ADSORPTION
Online Contents | 1996
|UTILISATION OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE CONSTITUENTS BY TEMPERATURE-SWING ADSORPTION
Online Contents | 1996
|Martian Atmospheric Utilization by Temperature-Swing Adsorption
SAE Technical Papers | 1996
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