October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... structures on another planetary body without the need to transport all the materials lies at the heart of in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) and represents a revolution for surviving on the Moon. A process that simultaneously removes lunar regolith...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... 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 ISRU...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... with all materials imported from Earth. Instead, such an infrastructure will require efforts for in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) to produce construction materials for hard landscaping of the habitat, surfaces to permit transportation to, from...
17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... oxygen from lunar regolith for the agency’s up and coming in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) demonstration mission in 2025. ISRU involves the extraction and processing of local resources into useful products, and for the Moon, the primary source...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... 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 and...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
... dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilisation Experiment (MOXIE) accomplished the task. The test took place April 20, the 60th Martian day, or sol...
