Company - Bechtel
Product/Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
Space Construction Company
ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization)
- Fields
- Space Construction Company
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
- Autonomous Construction - Humans living on the Moon will need structures like habitats and landing pads, which can be made more efficiently if they're constructed autonomously by robots. Colorado School of Mines, led by principal investigator Christopher Dreyer, will develop tools and methods for autonomous landing pad construction on the Moon's surface.
- Extracting Resources - Supplies for lunar astronauts could be created from what's already on the lunar surface, a process called in-situ resource utilization. Missouri S&T, led by principal investigator Leslie Gertsch, will use magnetic and electrostatic technologies to more efficiently separate calcium- and aluminum-containing minerals from the Moon's soil, called regolith, to extract materials suitable for construction on the lunar surface.