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...
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...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
...’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 to advance...
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...
