Highlights
European Space Agency (ESA) project PERFORMER - ISRU on Mars: Plasma conversion of CO
2 from the Martian atmosphere - has been funded!
Start date April 2022.
ISRU stands for "In-situ Resource utilization" and is the harvesting of resources on the exploration site, that would have to be brought from Earth otherwise.
FCT project
PARADiSE -
the PlasmA RoAD to Solar fuEls - has been financed! Started January 2022.