In-Space Manufacturing and Resources

Comprehensive resource covering all in-space manufacturing and planetary resource exploration endeavors.

The space economy is developing quickly, and pivotal events have brought us to a strong inflection point. This unique book includes fundamental and ground-breaking innovations in the field and is meant to quickly get readers up to speed on many different facets of space and planetary resource exploration, such as:

• Space health & medicine
• Space biology & space farming
• Space chemistry & space mining
• Space construction & advanced materials production
• Space policy, law & economics

Presenting a snapshot of the expanding space economy and manufacturing applications in low-Earth orbit, along with resource utilization capabilities in development for Moon and Mars missions, this an indispensable source for all researchers and commercial companies working on space and planetary resource exploration.

Introductory Statement: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Introductory Statement: European Space Agency

Introductory Statement: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Introductory Statement: Australian Space Agency

Part 1: Space Medicine and Human Health

1. Human Health in Space

2. Space Medicine and Countermeasures

3. Frontier Medical Technologies to Support Space Exploration

Part 2: Space Biology

4. Plant Biology and a New Approach to Space Farming

5. Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering in Space

Part 3: Space Chemistry

6. Chemistry Related Innovations in Space. Benefits of Flow Chemistry

7. Catalysis in Space Environments

Part 4: Space Mining

8. Mining and Microbiology for the Solar System Silicate and Basalt Economy

9. Near-Earth Asteroids as Promising Candidates for Space Resources

10. Space Mining of Phosphorus from Moon Crust–Spillover of Learning from Earth

11. Lunar Resources in Support of Human Interplanetary Settlement & Limitations

Part 5: Space Farming & Food

12. PONDS: A New Method for Plant Production in Space

13. Space Food for the Future: Nutritional Challenges and Technological Strategies for Healthy and High-Quality Products

Part 6: Advanced Materials

14. Metal Alloy Synthesis in Microgravity

15. Layer-by-Layer Deposition in Microgravity for Enhanced Thin Film Production

16. 3D Bioprinting Aboard the International Space Station using the Techshot BioFabrication Facility

Part 7: Space Construction

17. Beyond the ISS: The World’s First Commercial Space Station

18. Leveraging Open Innovation to Incentivize Advances in Additive Construction in Space and on Earth

Part 8: Space Policy, Law, and Economics

19. The Impact of the Artemis Accords on Resource Extraction

20. Space Resources: Physical Constraints, Policy Choices, & Ethical Considerations

The Future of Space Exploration: A Young Perspective

Volker Hessel is Professor at the University of Adelaide (Australia) in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials. He is the Research Director of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR). He was Director R&D at the “Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH” (Germany) as well as Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands). His research is focused on microfluidic/continuous-flow and plasma-chemistry based engineering, and space-resource research. He is (co-)author of > 550 peer-reviewed publications and several books.

Jana Stoudemire is the Commercial Innovation Strategy Lead for Axiom Space (USA), responsible for identifying new business opportunities for biomedical and technology research and manufacturing applications on the world’s first commercial space station. She joined the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory (ISS-NL) team, then Space Tango, where she established the initial foundational biomedical partnerships defining a new sector of the space economy. She has participated in > 50 speaking engagements, and she is a member of the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space (CBPSS).

Hideaki Miyamoto is the Head of the Department of Systems Innovation and Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was an Adjunct Professor at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from 2017 to 2019. He is involved in many space missions, such as asteroid missions (Hayabusa, Hayabusa-2, and HERA), lunar missions (Kaguya, LUPEX), and Mars missions (MMX). He has published > 110 peer-reviewed publications, mostly in planetary science.

Ian D. Fisk is the Professor of Flavor Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Director of the International Flavour Research Centre (UK and Australia). Before, he worked in the food industry as a senior flavor chemist for Kraft Foods. His research interests lie in flavor management (plant biology, agricultural techniques, food production through to consumption) and fundamental food chemistry to support novel processing technologies and commercial products. He has long term research interests in optimizing space farming, space food processing and space food for future longer-term space missions. He is (co-)author of >100 peer-reviewed publications.

Comprehensive resource covering all in-space manufacturing and planetary resource exploration endeavors.

The space economy is developing quickly, and pivotal events have brought us to a strong inflection point. This unique book includes fundamental and ground-breaking innovations in the field and is meant to quickly get readers up to speed on many different facets of space and planetary resource exploration, such as:

• Space health & medicine
• Space biology & space farming
• Space chemistry & space mining
• Space construction & advanced materials production
• Space policy, law & economics

Presenting a snapshot of the expanding space economy and manufacturing applications in low-Earth orbit, along with resource utilization capabilities in development for Moon and Mars missions, this an indispensable source for all researchers and commercial companies working on space and planetary resource exploration.