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#1 Re: Planetary transportation » Mars Cart » 2018-11-13 12:29:37

Hi...as per my knowledge Scaling up MOXIE to produce propellants for the ERV would require a substantial amount of power, ~12kWe according to MIT and NASA, to produce 2kg of oxygen per hour.  You'd still have to import hydrogen from Earth to make methane.

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