Space Industry, Manufacturing, and Environment
§ 4 - Industrial Processes in Space For Converting Lunar and Asteroidal Materials into Useful Products
Note: Many of the sections below focus on producing useful things from lunar materials rather than asteroidal materials because we know more about the Moon, mainly from the samples returned from the Apollo missions, and it has traditionally been much easier to get funding for studies to use lunar materials. However, most of these processes would apply to asteroidal material as well. (Some of the following applies mainly to asteroidal material.)
The focus of this chapter is the Space Manufacturing Facility (SMF).
Table of Contents:
§ 4.1 The space environment -- advantages and disadvantages
§ 4.2 Separating elements and minerals by simple methods
§ 4.3 Construction materials from minimally processed bulk lunar and asteroidal soils
§ 4.4 Separating elements and/or oxides from minerals or bulk material
§ 4.5 Producing high temperature refractories
§ 4.6 Waste disposal
§ 4.7 Manufacturing overview
§ 4.8 Automation and teleoperation (robotics)
§ 4.9 Bootstrapping
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Additional, children pages of this current parent page: Manufacturing, Industry :
Space Environment
Zero Gravity to High-G Centrifuge
Vacuum
Solar Ovens, High Temperatures
Solar Electric Power
Heat Rejection
Bulk Construction Materials
Sintering
Glassy Ceramics
Glasses
Fiberglass
Materials Processing
Magnetic Separation
Volatile Extraction
Electrostatic Separation
Vibration and Flotation
Electrophoresis
Electrolysis
Smelting
Solar Oven Distillation
Chemical Processing
Refractories
Waste Disposal
Manufacturing
Vapor Deposition in Vacuum
Cutting
Welding
Containerless Processing in Zero G
Powder Metallurgy (UC)
Robotics
Surface Exploration
Mining Robotics
Manufacturing Robotics
Robotics in Other Operations
Links to Other Websites on Robotics
Bootstrapping
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