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Lunar ISRU Demonstration Mission Definition Study Segment 3

Mon, 12/12/2022 - 10:03
Start Date: 
2018
Programme: 
Discovery
End Date: 
2018
Programme Reference: 
18_M-HRE-1B
Country: 
UK
Contractor: 
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)
Status: 
Closed
Description: 

The ISRU-DM mission aims to perform the first demonstration of ISRU on the Moon, via the production of water or oxygen from raw lunar material (i.e. regolith, ice etc.) At Agency-level a phase-0 level study was also performed to understand the technical and programmatic feasibility of undertaking the ISRU-DM mission via the provision of commercial services from industry.

To this end, this study was split into three ‘segments’; the first studying the ISRU payload itself, the second studying the transportation and delivery of the ISRU payload to the lunar surface, and the third studying the provision of a communications service to the ISRU payload once on the Moon. SSTL and GES have been working as part of this third Segment, and this report contains a summary of the work done in this area for the ISRU-DM study.

Application Domain: 
Exploration
Technology Domain: 
22 - Environmental Control & Life Support (ECLS) and In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU)
Competence Domain: 
6-Life & Physical Science Payloads, Life Support, Robotics & Automation
Keywords: 
ISRU
Moon
Exploration
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