Composition sensors calibration and characterization and warmup analysis for the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)

MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is one of the payloads that is being carried on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. MOXIE was developed by MIT and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to demonstrate, for the first time, In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) on another planet by extracting O₂ from CO₂ in the Martian atmosphere using solid oxide electrolysis (SOE). In order to inform and control its system, MOXIE has a set of temperature, pressure, and composition sensors that measure its internal gas flows. The four composition sensors are commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and include an oxygen sensor (0 - 100%) and a carbon dioxide sensor (0 - 5%) for the output gas stream from the SOE anode (expected to be pure oxygen) and another carbon dioxide sensor (0 - 100%) and a carbon monoxide sensor (0 - 100%) for the cathode (a mixture of CO₂ and CO).

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Nasr, Maya(Aeronautics scientist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jeffrey A. Hoffman.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130746

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/130746