... believe that fuel, air, food and power supplies will need to be locally sourced. So how realistic is the in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) approach? Nick Spall considers the possibilities of ‘living off the land’ on other worlds by applying...
...future long-term Mars missions are to be sustainable, we need to develop propulsion systems that utilise locally available in-situ resources from which propellants can be derived. The authors discuss the requirements for a practical rocket system for...
... will help future missions “live off the land,” using elements of another world’s environment, also known as in-situ resource utilization. “It’s taking regolith, the substance you find on the ground, and putting it through a processing plant, making...
... the agency’s up and coming in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) demonstration mission in 2025. ISRU involves the .... Enabling spacecraft to “fill up” in space with locally sourced resources, such as oxygen, will play a key role in the exploration...
... we don’t have to wait for years as a new spacecraft travels from Earth each time.” Honeybee are no stranger to in-situ resource utilisation systems, and have in the past received a number of NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards...
... cannot fail, their success must be assured…which is expensive! The result is that mission designers spend a lot of resources attempting to assure a mission succeeds because it is too expensive to tolerate failure. However, there are ways to help...