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Honda plans to test its hydrogen power in orbit via new partnerships with Sierra Space and Tec-Masters to see if it can launch a fully self-sustainable power and oxygen source.
Why It Flies: Honda has stayed the course on hydrogen as the key to decarbonizing its vehicles by 2040… but the approach hasn’t garnered much outside support due to price and logistics issues. If Honda can prove its power beyond Earth, it may give people the push to invest in it back on the surface.
Between the Fuel Cells: Honda thinks hydrogen power could give life to space stations and astronauts.
- Honda is sending an advanced, high-pressure water-splitting system to the International Space Station, using a cool-looking spaceplane from Sierra Space called the “Dream Chaser.”
- The automaker will test the system — which continuously produces oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity — in microgravity.
- Best of all, the only byproduct of an electrolysis system is water, which gets recycled to create “a closed-loop energy cycle,” per The Verge.
The Future: The hope is that the system can provide oxygen and electricity on a future lunar colony — a mission that several space startups want to make a reality. Having a regenerative energy source makes that ambition much more possible and may serve as key infrastructure for humans to one day complete the long journey to Mars.
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