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...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...is food. Greenhouse sunlight, continuous power, bioreactors and ISRU fertilizer can offer food self-sufficiency to a crew...consortium Once permanent crewed facilities are in place the ISRU consortium will have technical, legal and financial standing to...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... lunar base has a dome designed by architects Foster + Partners As a concept, the LavaHive approach is a great example of how ISRU and 3D printing can be combined to enable exploration missions on the Martian surface. Many of the concepts, like the...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...Mars Global Surveyor. In addition, human discomfort with drinking recycled urine might also increase the attractiveness of ISRU over recycling. The issue of disposing wastewater products might be as simple as sequestering it and eventually relocating...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... 13th Reinventing Space Conference 2015, Oxford, UK, 10-12 November 2015 4 Bienhoff D. “From Importing to Exporting: The Impact of ISRU on Space Logistics” AIAA 2011-7112, AIAA Space 2011 Conference Expo., Long Beach, California, 27-29 Sept. 2011 ...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... human-machine interface testing and Spaceship EAC activities (see below) e.g. demonstration/validation of In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) tools. LUNA is also being developed to address the need within the EU to provide a lunar analogue facility...
