Tired of lugging around heavy mining equipment for your Interplanetary ISRU? Looking for a compact ISRU for your Single-Stage-To-Laythe Planes? Have no fear, for now you can create fuel from the air around you!

Melantu Atmospheric Harvesting (MAH) is a small mod to complement the Stock ISRU with atmospheric harvesting and converting. Specifically, it is designed to turn Carbon Dioxide in the atmospheres of Duna, Eve, and Laythe (and Kerbin, though I'm not sure why you would need it) into Liquid Fuel and Oxidizer. This mod is inspired by Mars Direct (its chemistry), The Martian (its power requirements), and the MOXIE experiment on the Mars 2020 rover (its form factor). It is a repurposed Atmospheric Fluid Spectro-Variometer, that can turn a small liquid hydrogen supply into a large amount of Liquid Fuel and Oxidizer using less power than the PB-NUK RTG. Sounds too good to be true? Well it takes a really long time, and only works in atmospheres. It Takes about 33 hours to fill up an FL-T100, 88.5 Kerbin Days to fill up a Rockomax 16, and 354 Kerbin Days to fill up a Big Orange Tank.

In addition to the Basic LFO, there are more specialized ISRU Modes including Methalox, Water, and Oxygen, designed to play well with life support mods and Rational Resources. (note: RealFuels is not currently supported)

Dependencies

• Community Resource Pack (Included in the Download)
• Module Manager (Included in the Download)

Recommended Mod

• CryoTanks (for Liquid Hydrogen tanks, required for the sample craft)

Future Development Roadmap

• 1.1: Proper Agency, Contracts to Collect a sample of CO2
• 1.2: More Powerful/Faster Parts with integrated tanks (aka I have to learn how to model and texture)
• 1.?.?: RealFuels Compatibility (I look at those cfg files and it breaks my brain)

This small sample craft is included in the download, as well as a Launch Vehicle for it that can take it all the way to Duna (Empty, which then you can manufacture propellant on Duna)

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