October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... policy analysts, also members of the Committee, whose expertise ranges from Moon territorialisation and governance to in situ resources utilisation and corporate law. Fig 3: Final configuration of projection-based mixed reality system. Justin Walsh...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... 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...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... 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...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
...these missions, including instrument calibration, power requirements for roving vehicles, drilling and sampling activities, and in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) of the surface rocks and minerals. Where then, would you expect to find such simulants...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... Systems & Development Office which includes a multi-discipline team of engineers and scientists focusing on various In-situ resource utilisation technology developments for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. She has a PhD in chemical engineering from...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... step in bringing back wealth from other worlds? Before an era can begin in which prosperity arises through in-situ resource utilisation - mining and production all taking place on or around the Moon - advances in scientific understanding of the Moon...
