NASA’s lunar ISRU progress review reports the Icy Regolith Processing Reactor subsystem at TRL 4 and cites a target of 1.78 kg per hour water extraction at 75% efficiency. That is a direct scaling metric for crew survival systems, propellant production, and any future lunar logistics network.[4]
Relevance to the Ark
NASA’s lunar ISRU progress review reports the Icy Regolith Processing Reactor subsystem at TRL 4 and cites a target of 1.78 kg per hour water extraction at 75% efficiency. That is a direct scaling met
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