SSERVI: Building scientific understanding for ISRU
Abstract
The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) is a U.S.-based virtual institute comprised of 12 geographically distributed teams across the U.S., 11 international partners, the Solar System Treks Project (SSTP) and an affiliation with the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis project. The recent selection of 8 new SSERVI teams strengthens the institute's efforts in ISRU greatly, touching upon efforts such as volatiles cycles, volatiles mapping, collection and processing of extracted water, identification of resources through remote sensing, geophysics, and other considerations relevant to ISRU such as trafficability, mobility, lighting, space weathering and many other efforts relevant to ISRU. When coupled with mapping efforts through the SSERVI teams and SSTP, and testing technologies, instruments and systems in relevant analog environments, these form a highly effective set of efforts toward advancing ISRU and helping create a sustainable presence on the Moon and beyond. This talk will highlight past, current and future SSERVI efforts and strategies toward building the scientific basis and initial steps toward lunar ISRU.
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E.175S