Potential Advantages of Conducting Short Duration Visits to the Martian Surface [PDF]
Recent NASA concepts for human missions to Mars, including the Evolvable Mars Campaign and Design Reference Architecture 5.0, have focused on the conduct of missions with long duration stays on the Martian surface.
Cirillo, William M. +4 more
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Integration of In-Situ Resource Utilization Into Lunar/Mars Exploration Through Field Analogs [PDF]
The NASA project to develop In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) technologies, in partnership with commercial and international collaborators, has achieved full system demonstrations of oxygen production using native regolith simulants.
Larson, William E., Sanders, Gerald B.
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Mapping solar irradiance within Schrödinger Basin for future robotic sample return missions [PDF]
, 2014 The US National Research Council (NRC) identified eight scientific concepts and thirty-five prioritized investigations to be addressed with continued lunar exploration.
Curran, N. M. +6 more
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NASA In-Situ Resource Utilization Project-and Seals Challenges [PDF]
A viewgraph presentation on NASA's In-Situ Resource Utilization Project and Seals Challenges is shown. The topics include: 1) What Are Space Resources?; 2) Space Resource Utilization for Exploration; 3) ISRU Enables Affordable, Sustainable & Flexible ...
Linne, Diane, Sacksteder, Kurt
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Erratum to “Adapting a Mars ISRU System to the Changing Mars Environment”
Space: Science & Technology, 2023 Donald Rapp, Eric Hinterman
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Potential Lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiments and Mission Scenarios [PDF]
The extraction and use of resources on the Moon, known as In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), can potentially reduce the cost and risk of human lunar exploration while also increasing science achieved.
Sanders, Gerald B.
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Frontier In-Situ Resource Utilization for Enabling Sustained Human Presence on Mars [PDF]
The currently known resources on Mars are massive, including extensive quantities of water and carbon dioxide and therefore carbon, hydrogen and oxygen for life support, fuels and plastics and much else.
Bushnell, Dennis M., Moses, Robert W.
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International Transactions on Electrical Energy SystemsThe integration of wireless power transfer (WPT) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies is essential for the sustainable operation of lunar multienergy virtual power plants (MEVPPs), where rovers, habitats, and in situ resource utilization (ISRU ...
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First Lunar Outpost support study [PDF]
The First Lunar Outpost (FLO) is the first manned step in the accomplishment of the Space Exploration Initiative, the Vice President's directive to NASA on the 20th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. FLO's broad objectives are the establishment of a
Bartz, Christopher +2 more
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Mars ISRU for Production of Mission Critical Consumables - Options, Recent Studies, and Current State of the Art [PDF]
In 1978, a ground breaking paper titled, "Feasibility of Rocket Propellant Production on Mars" by Ash, Dowler, and Varsi discussed how ascent propellants could be manufactured on the Mars surface from carbon dioxide collected from the atmosphere to ...
Araghi, K. +7 more
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