Lunar water for drinking and rocket propellant

Water is by far the most versatile and most necessary resource for crewed space exploration. It is the most important raw material in life support systems and for rocket propellants manufactured using hydrogen. In the ‘Validation of Lunar Water Extraction and Purification Technologies for In-Situ Propellant and Consumables Production’ (LUWEX) project, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and other European participants are researching technologies for the extraction of water from lunar rock and its purification.

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