{"id":101145,"date":"2020-01-21T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/esa-opens-oxygen-plant-making-air-out-of-moondust"},"modified":"2020-01-21T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:09:49","slug":"esa-opens-oxygen-plant-making-air-out-of-moondust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/esa-opens-oxygen-plant-making-air-out-of-moondust","title":{"rendered":"ESA opens oxygen plant, making air out of moondust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/esa-opens-oxygen-plant-making-air-out-of-moondust2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.<\/p>\n<p>A prototype <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/oxygen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">oxygen<\/a> plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving our own facility allows us to focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/oxygen+production\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">oxygen production<\/a>, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant,\u201d comments Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, whose Ph.D. work is being supported through ESA\u2019s Networking and Partnering Initiative, harnessing advanced academic research for space applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust. A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands. \u201cHaving our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}