NASA NTRS · 20210018485
Explore Moon to Mars
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OSCAR Overview: What? Orbital Syngas Commodity Augmentation Reactor. Why? Current methods of space waste management are comprehensively unsustainable • Convert trash and human waste into useful gases, enabling long duration human exploration of deep space. Confirm the operability of a space waste conversion reactor in microgravity How? Incineration and steam reforming. Reactor heats (600 °C) the trash under pressure (40 psia) to incinerate it. Suborbital flight sequence trash conversion: 60-70%. Long duration trash conversion: up to 90%.
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Morgan A Benson. Explore Moon to Mars. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210018485
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