Digital Engineering Design Center (DEDC): Modelling an ISRU System

The DEDC provides immersive project-based learning on digital engineering toolsets and processes supporting NASA’s digital transformation goals:
- Digital Engineering uses authoritative sources of systems' data and models as a continuum across disciplines to support integrated digital approach life cycle activities from concept through disposal.
- The digital environment provided includes the state-of-the-art digital engineering suite, Siemens Xcelerator.

The pilot project is developing an end-to-end integrated model of an In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) system for commodities production:
- ISRU uses local resources to provide mission consumables to enable a sustainable Moon or Mars surface presence.
- The final digital twin product will include a methanation reactor, condenser, and electrolyzer subsystem.