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FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOON / MARS PLANETARY SURFACE SIMULATOR SUBSYSTEMS.

Programme
Discovery
Programme Reference
21-P-O-HRE-01
Contractor
Start Date
End Date
Status
Closed
Country
Denmark
FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOON / MARS PLANETARY SURFACE SIMULATOR SUBSYSTEMS.
Description

The study aimed to develop crucial enabling technologies for constructing potential large scale Moon and Mars Planetary surface simulators. It involved the Design, Construction and Testing of five enabling technologies, two related to the simulator chamber design (Task 1) and 3 involving modular sub-systems (Task 2). To summarize, despite several technical challenges functional solutions have been found for each of the five target technologies. Together these constitute vital components for future construction of a (low cost) large scale Mars/Moon test facility

Executive summary