In 2020, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) will fly to Mars as part of the Mars-2020 “Perseverance” rover’s experiment package, and for the first time will demonstrate the use of in-situ resources of another planet, by using the carbon dioxide atmosphere of Mars as a feedstock to produce oxygen. MOXIE, however, was not the first flight experiment proposed to test in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). The Mars ISPP Precursor, “MIP”, was a flight experiment on the 2001 Mars Surveyor Lander that was designed to demonstrate In-situ Propellant Production--ISPP--for the first time on Mars. The experiment was designed to show that it was possible to produce oxygen from the carbon dioxide atmosphere, and to demonstrate the individual technology components that would go into a full-scale production plant. The aim point of the oxygen production was to showcase the possibility of producing oxygen for use as rocket fuel, ultimately as an enabling technology for a future human expedition to Mars.


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    Title :

    MIP: the First ISRU Flight Experiment


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    Conference:

    AIAA Ascend 2020 ; 2020 ; Virtual, US


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English





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