Pneumatic Planetary Regolith Feed System for In-Situ Resource UtilizationThe NASA In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) project requires a regolith feed system that can transfer lunar regolith several meters vertically into a chemical reactor for oxygen production on the moon.
Document ID
20110001442
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Extended Abstract
Authors
Mantovani, James G. (NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Mueller, Robert P. (NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Townsend, Ivan I. (ASRC Aerospace Corp. Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Craft, Jack (Honeybee Robotics Ltd. New York, NY, United States)
Zacny, Kris (Honeybee Robotics Ltd. New York, NY, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
June 8, 2010
Subject Category
Mechanical Engineering
Report/Patent Number
KSC-2010-091
Meeting Information
Meeting: Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium