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发帖数: 486 | 1 https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-new-tipping-point-
partnerships-for-moon-and-mars-technologies
凭啥只给 SpaceX 3米， 而给了 Blue Origin 10 米？
Cryogenic Propellant Production and Management
• Blue Origin LLC of Kent, Washington, $10 million
A ground demonstration of hydrogen and oxygen liquefaction and storage,
representing rocket and spacecraft propellant that could be produced on the
Moon. The demonstration could help inform a large-scale propellant
production plant suitable for the lunar surface.
• OxEon Energy LLC of North Salt Lake, Utah, $1.8 million
OxEon Energy will work with the Colorado School of Mines to integrate an
electrolysis technology to process ice and separate the hydrogen and oxygen.
The molecules could then be cooled to produce fuel for cislunar transport.
This technology could provide a flexible and scalable solution for future in
-situ resource utilization operations on the Moon.
• Skyre Inc. of East Hartford, Connecticut, $2.6 million
Skyre, also known as Sustainable Innovations, along with partner Meta Vista
USA LLC, will develop a system to make propellant from permanently frozen
water located at the Moon’s poles, including processes to separate the
hydrogen and oxygen, keep the product extremely cold and use hydrogen as a
refrigerant to liquefy oxygen.
• SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, $3 million
SpaceX will collaborate with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Alabama, to develop and test coupler prototypes – or nozzles –
for refueling spacecraft such as the company’s Starship vehicle. A
cryogenic fluid coupler for large-scale in-space propellant transfer is an
important technology to aid sustained exploration efforts on the Moon and
Mars. |
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