Exploration architecture

Space Construction for Habitats

Building shelter on another world rather than carrying it there. Concepts range from covering habitats with bagged regolith for radiation shielding to three-dimensional printing of structures from local soil, so that the mass launched from Earth shrinks and the base can grow using what is already on the ground.

Additive Manufacturing
Autonomous Construction
Regolith Processing

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Space Construction for Habitats

Systems, programs & concepts

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Space Construction for Habitats

Systems, programs & concepts

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