SBIR/STTR Research Award
Immortal Molten Regolith Electrolysis Anode for Oxygen and Metals Extraction from Lunar Regolith (IMMORTAL)
Award amount
$149,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- LUNAR RESOURCES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-08-02
- Contract end date
- 2025-02-06
- UEI
- G3ZMPB72ELP8
- Solicitation number
- SBIR-2024-Phase 1
- Topic code
- Z12
Research abstract
Lunar Resources, an American space industrial company and leaders in resource extraction from the Moon, proposes to NASA the “Immortal Molten Regolith Electrolysis Anode for Oxygen and Metals Extraction from Lunar Regolith” (IMMORTAL) project. This NASA SBIR Phase I project will mature, characterize, and evaluate a new and novel approach to enable long lifetime anodes for metals and oxygen extraction for molten regolith electrolysis (MRE) systems. This new and novel technology eliminates anode degradation eliminating challenges of the traditional MRE process. Furthermore, it can enable greater than an order of magnitude more production. And the technology can be directly swapped for existing MRE anode subsystems and utilize the same MRE reactor design and operation.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Helix Tactical Power Inverter
- Immortal Molten Regolith Electrolysis Anode for Oxygen and Metals Extraction from Lunar Regolith (IMMORTAL)
- Helix High-Power Pulsed Electromagnetic Microwave Power Supply (HEMPS)
- Lunar Joining of Elementary Structures (LUJES)
- Defeat of Smart Landmines Over Large Area Munitions (DISMOLA)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Vertical Lunar Regolith Conveyance for In-Situ Resource Utilization
- Multi-stage Oxygen and Regolith Resource Extractor
- Advancing Modular Conveying System: Modular Static Auger Systems for Bulk material Handling for Material Processing Plant Systems based on Planets, Small Bodies, and Moons
- Minimizing volatile sublimation during excavation
Research funding history
27 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2025). Reported award amounts total $15,404,872. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation