Melt. Extract. Fuel. Repeat. 🚀 To build an affordable, sustainable presence on the Moon, we must learn to live off the land. Air Pioneer is a scalable, modular system that creates purified oxygen to reduce dependency on supplies from Earth. Using Moon-extracted oxygen for propellant, fuel cells, and breathing reduces our lunar landers’ load by many metric tons of mass. Launching less mass from Earth lowers the cost of our Moon base, fueling a future cislunar economy. 🌕

@blueorigin what energy source will you use? Will you be burning the fuel itself? The ISRU material extraction process requires a lot of energy because it heats the lunar regolith extremely well. If you want to produce decent quantities of propellant/oxygen, you'll need a lot of energy. 1/2

@LPATAN2 @blueorigin From the image the larger one AP2 is powered by solar. Note the second lander and cable between them. AP1 may just be a testbed. Runs on battery power with small sample to prove the concept.

@StatisticalMind @blueorigin Claro eso suponia yo, seran basicamente "test" para verificar que funciona todo perfectamente en un entorno lunar poco controlado, creo que mira más para una futura base lunar, que para las misiones Artemis