20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
...applied. Another bonus of this process is that the leftover regolith can be converted into usable metal alloys - material that ...of metals will depend on where on the Moon the regolith is acquired from – there would be significant regional differences...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... printing for building large structures and propulsion tanks Resources already available on the surface (the lunar regolith) can be used as a building material and a solar powered 3D printer can focus endlessly available sunlight to sinter successive...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... spacecraft will perform the first landing at the South Pole of the Moon, in the Aitken basin, to conduct regolith analyses. The European contributions are PILOT - a sensor package for precise landing navigation - and PROSPECT, consisting...
May 2024
Out of this world – NASA’s textile technicians and innovations for space voyages
...MISSE-18-NASA which tested coatings, quantum dots, lunar regolith composites, and other materials in the low Earth... a miniature and compact spectrometer. In addition, lunar regolith combined with polymers could be manufactured into building materials ...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
..., by using this method, it is only the ground-up surface layer of fragmented rock that blankets the moon – the regolith – that is primarily detected, material that is typically mixed and difficult to interpret. In order to understand more about the...
17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... deliver a reactor that will produce oxygen from lunar regolith for the agency’s up and coming in-situ resource utilisation (... Moon, the primary source of material is the lunar regolith. Regolith contains oxygen and water, two key elements used in ...
