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 the...
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...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... capability, in-space propulsion, deep space navigation and communication, working in space, science, deep space operations, in-situ resource utilisation, deep space habitation and crew health. This progression of missions to a Mars Base Camp is not...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... and isotopes released by the sample. In addition to the volatile analysis, ProSPA also allows an in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) experiment to be performed: the heated sample is exposed to hydrogen (H2) or methane (CH4) in order to extract...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... The result is that mission designers spend a lot of resources attempting to assure a mission succeeds because it is too expensive...of an LCROSS spectrometer, which has now also been utilised on the LADEE mission. We’re also taking battery technologies...
