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Sustainable Water Systems in Space: A Review of Current Technologies and Future Prospects

Water Resources Research
Sustainable water management is a critical challenge in space exploration, where the limited availability of resources requires innovative approaches to ensure astronauts' survival on long‐duration missions.
David Bamidele Olawade, James O. Ijiwade, Ojima Zechariah Wada   +2 more
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Positioning, navigation, and timing on the Moon and Mars with galactic cosmic rays [PDF]

iScience
Summary: The muometric wireless navigation system (MuWNS) is a technology enabling signal reception for machine controlling and communication systems underground where a radio or GPS signal would normally be lost.
G. Leone, H.K.M. Tanaka, M. Holma, S. Krishnan, A.R. Duffy, T. Enqvist, P. Kuusiniemi, J. Joutsenvaara, G. Cerretto, E. Cantoni, M. Sellone, J. Marteau, D. Lo Presti, J.G. Szűcs, D. Varga   +14 more
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Toward Building Sustainable Mars Infrastructure: A CO₂-Breathing Plasma Thruster for Orbit Maintenance and In Situ Oxygen Generation. [PDF]

Glob Chall
This study demonstrates a CO2‐breathing plasma thruster capable of producing high thrust and generating oxygen directly from the Martian atmosphere. By combining propulsion with in situ resource utilization, the system enables long‐duration satellite orbit maintenance and supports future human exploration.
Taploo A, Duppada GS, Keidar M.
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Biofuel Production Via in Situ Resource Utilization on Mars [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
This paper is based on the fundamentals and principles of materials science and resource utilization. In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) can make full use of materials in space to produce the resources needed for human survival and even interstellar ...
Meng Xiangyu
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Overview of the Lunar In Situ Resource Utilization Techniques for Future Lunar Missions

Space: Science & Technology, 2023
Along with the rapid development of space technology, extraterrestrial exploration has gradually tended to further-distanced and longer-termed planet exploration.
Peng Zhang, Wei Dai, Ran Niu, Guang Zhang, Guanghui Liu, Xin Liu, Zheng Bo, Zhi Wang, Haibo Zheng, Chengbao Liu, Hanzhe Yang, Yifan Bai, Yang Zhang, Dong Yan, Kefa Zhou, Ming Gao   +15 more
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Towards Lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization Based Subtractive Manufacturing

Applied Sciences, 2023
In recent years, space agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA), have expanded their research activities in the field of manufacturing in space.
André Seidel, Uwe Teicher, Steffen Ihlenfeldt, Konstantin Sauer, Florian Morczinek, Martin Dix, Rick Niebergall, Bernhard Durschang, Stefan Linke   +8 more
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Current trends in Martian in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and geological perspectives for future research

Journal of the Geological Society of Korea
Hyo-Im Kim, Yoon Ji, Junghyun Um
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Thermodynamic modeling of in-situ rocket propellant fabrication on Mars

iScience, 2022
Summary: In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) to refuel rockets on Mars will become critical in the future. The current effort presents a thorough feasibility analysis of a scalable, Matlab-based, integrated ISRU framework from the standpoint of the ...
Shah Saud Alam, Christopher Depcik, Sindhu Preetham Burugupally, Jared Hobeck, Ethan McDaniel   +4 more
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Designing the bioproduction of Martian rocket propellant via a biotechnology-enabled in situ resource utilization strategy

Nature Communications, 2021
Returning from Mars to Earth requires propellant. The authors propose a biotechnology-enabled in situ resource utilization (bioISRU) process to produce a Mars specific rocket propellant, 2,3-butanediol, using cyanobacteria and engineered E.
Nicholas S. Kruyer, Matthew J. Realff, Wenting Sun, Caroline L. Genzale, Pamela Peralta-Yahya   +4 more
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Review of space resources processing for Mars missions: Martian simulants, regolith bonding concepts and additive manufacturing

Open Ceramics, 2022
Scientific exploration of extraterrestrial planets has gripped human imagination since the advent of space travel. Human missions to Mars could produce insight into the essential questions of how, when and where life began on Earth.
David Karl, Kevin M. Cannon, Aleksander Gurlo   +2 more
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