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. This paper summarizes recent efforts to develop and test a scoop, tamp and filter (STF) sub-system to prepare and deposit lunar regolith for a laser-based vitreous material transformation system being developed under a NASA contract by ICON, inc., which is hoped to eventually be used for automated additive construction with indigenous regolith on the Moon.


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    Title :

    Moon-to-Mars Planetary Construction Technology (MMPACT) Scoop, Tamp, Filter (STF) Sub-System


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    Conference:

    19th ASCE ASD Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environment (Earth & Space) ; 2024 ; Miami, FL, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English






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