Apr 26, 2021 Innovative Israeli technology being developed will allow oxygen to be produced from lunar soil to power space colonies and space exploration. By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel Space exploration is getting a boost from an Israeli startup that is developing technology to extract oxygen from lunar and Martian soil to be used by future space missions, Israel Hayom is reporting. The Helios Project recently got funding from the Israel Space Agency and the Ministry of Energy for an oxygen extraction system that is expected to be launched in the next few years. At the heart of the technology is their “molten regolith electrolysis reactor,” a furnace that separates the abundant oxides found all over the surface of the moon and Mars into oxygen and various metals, including Iron, Aluminun and Titanium.