NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate “champions technologies needed to live on and explore the Moon” [1]. This includes capabilities that capitalize on existing lunar resources and carry out surface manufacturing and construction activities. The goal of the Moon-to-Mars Planetary Construction Technology (MMPACT) Project is to mature these two capabilities. The primary resource on the Moon and the primary feedstock for manufacturing and construction is regolith. In the past, astronauts launched, landed, and lived in a spacecraft. NASA envisions a future where we make living spaces on the lunar surface instead. The innovative technologies required for lunar surface construction may be something never seen before, or they may be adaptations of existing technologies. MMPACT must screen for the most feasible technologies with the earliest potential technology insertions given the ambitious goals of the Artemis campaign. This poster summarizes recent efforts to discover and document mechanical and thermal capabilities of various technologies: a laser-based vitreous material transformation from Texas-based ICON, a molten extrusion process from ICON, a mortar from MSFC, a mortar from an MSFC-Louisiana State University partnership, and a geopolymer from a MSFC-Pennsylvania State University partnership. Other testing and development activities are documented as well. [1] https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/Lunar_Surface_Innovation_Initiative


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    Titel :

    Moon-to-Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technology: MMPACT Material Screening


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    2023 MSFC Poster Jamboree ; 2023 ; Huntsville, AL, US


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-06-22


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch