Oxygen and hydrogen produced by splitting lunar water can be used together as rocket fuel.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent peer-reviewed and technical sources (AIAA, ScienceDirect, NASA patent, MIT Technology Review), consistent with well-established LH2/LOX rocket propulsion science.
Sources
- Inside NASA's audacious plan to build a nuclear-powered ... (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2023-4757 (arc.aiaa.org)
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/19/1001857/how-moon-lunar-mining-water-ice-rocket-fuel/ (technologyreview.com)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352309318300099 (sciencedirect.com)
- https://www.minesnewsroom.com/news/electrochemical-cell-could-split-water-moon-rocket-fuel (minesnewsroom.com)