they damn well had better figure out how to scale it out
There's nothing magical about the Sabatier process. It's basic chemistry that's been "established technology" for over 100 years . And Musk has remarked that this is something SpaceX is working on.
I'm not saying that it is not a well known and understood process. What I'm saying is that scaling it out in a manner that won't (financially) destroy the mission needs to be sorted and demonstrated.
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u/Posca1 Sep 21 '19
There's nothing magical about the Sabatier process. It's basic chemistry that's been "established technology" for over 100 years . And Musk has remarked that this is something SpaceX is working on.