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Planetary Regolith Delivery Systems for ISRU [PDF]
Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2013 The challenges associated with collecting regolith on a planetary surface and delivering it to an in-situ resource utilization system differ significantly from similar activities conducted on Earth. Since system maintenance on a planetary body can be difficult or impossible to do, high reliability and service life are expected of a regolith delivery ...
James G. Mantovani, Ivan I. Townsend
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PLoS ONE, 2021 In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) is increasingly acknowledged as an essential requirement for the construction of sustainable extra-terrestrial colonies.
Sofie M Castelein +11 more
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Additive manufacturing of metallic glass from powder in space
npj Microgravity, 2023 Additive manufacturing of metals – and in particular building with laser-based powder bed fusion – is highly flexible and allows high-resolution features and feedstock savings. Meanwhile, though space stations in low Earth orbit are established, a set of
Christian Neumann +5 more
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Vacuum Pyrolysis and Related ISRU Techniques [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2007 A number of ISRU-related techniques have been developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The focus of the team has been on development of the vacuum pyrolysis technique for the production of oxygen from the lunar regolith. However, a number of related techniques have also been developed, including solar concentration, solar heating of regolith ...
Eric H. Cardiff +3 more
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Frontiers in Materials, 2021 Hydrogen is regarded as a promising solution to fulfill the energy demand of Mars human base in the future. Through in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) on Mars, the composite of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and magnesium hydride which demonstrates ...
Ze Zhang +9 more
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Bioregenerative life support systems (BLSS) are conceived of and developed so as to provide food sources for crewed missions to the Moon or Mars. The in situ resource utilization (ISRU) approach aims to reduce terrestrial input into a BLSS by using ...
Luigi Giuseppe Duri +8 more
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Nuclear Power from Lunar ISRU [PDF]
Insights in Mining Science & Technology, 2019 Thorium on the lunar surface can be transmuted into fissile uranium suitable for a controlled chain reaction to provide heat. Thorium is fertile, requiring bombardment by neutrons to become a suitable nuclear fuel. Oxides of thorium are dense and can be concentrated and beneficiated from comminuted regolith via inertial or thermal means. A neutron flux
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Applied SciencesThe inspirational paper by Ash, Dowler, and Varsi in 1978, proposing to utilize in situ resources on Mars (ISRU) rather than bringing them from Earth, originated the field of Mars ISRU that has been the subject of research ever since.
Donald Rapp, Vassilis J. Inglezakis
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 There are medical treatment vulnerabilities in longer-duration space missions present in the current International Space Station crew health care system with risks, arising from spaceflight-accelerated pharmaceutical degradation and resupply lag times ...
Matthew J. McNulty +17 more
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Volatile Characterisation Instrumentation for ISRU applications [PDF]
, 2019 Key to the success of any future mission(s) aimed at prospecting and extracting lunar volatiles is the availability of miniaturised instruments to identify and characterise the volatile inventory on and below the lunar surface. We will discuss two instruments, which are in development under the EU funded Lunar Volatiles Mobile Instrumentation (LUVMI ...
Sheridan, Simon +7 more
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