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Mars: Utah company has the M.O.X.I.E. to manufacture on an alien planet

Mars: Utah company has the M.O.X.I.E. to manufacture on an alien planet

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – It’s part of the Perseverance rover mission to Mars, and it sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. Scientists from earth are ready to try manufacturing on an alien planet for the first time.

Utah’s OxEon Energy has helped make it very real.

The experiment is called MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization experiment). It is part of the Perseverance Rover mission.

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Utah is the place to set up shop!

Utah is the place to set up shop!

We were privileged to host Senator Mitt Romney at OxEon last week.

OxEon transforms energy conversion

OxEon transforms energy conversion

“For the first time ever in the history of humanity,” said CEO Joseph Hartvigsen, “someone has taken a resource not originating on Earth and converted it into a useful product by applying chemical engineering principles.”

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As director of alternate fuels and energy systems at the Idaho National Laboratory, Frost collaborated with his OxEon Energy co-founders, Dr. S. Elango Elangovan and Joseph Hartvigsen, on projects involving solid oxide on and off for three decades.

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