March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
...lunar lander needs. NASA would provide the rover, ISRU payload and launch vehicle, while an international or ...a pathfinder for costconstrained missions RP will be the first ISRU demonstration on another planetary body, taking the first steps ...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
.... Many eyebrows were raised about the feasibility of such Mars agriculture! In fact, many researchers believe that ISRU-led plant production is indeed possible. ‘Macronutrients’ like O2, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and potassium are present in lunar...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
...and sampling activities, and in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) of the surface rocks and minerals. Where then,... applications of regolith simulants at present involve in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) on the Moon and Mars, i.e. how to use the local...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... will require efforts for in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) to produce construction materials for hard landscaping of the... and other studies show great promise for increasing human ISRU and whether practiced on the Moon or implemented judiciously...
17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... ability to extract oxygen from the lunar surface will enable the sustainability of these exploration efforts. The ISRU Demonstration Mission will show for the first time an end-to-end extraction process in a manner representative of a scaled...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... high-value products The LRP, by contrast, is in line with the vision of NASA’s In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) campaign, which follows the philosophy of using as much of the surrounding resources as possible to generate useful commodities for...
