Workshop: Three Dimensional (3D) Additive Construction for Space using In-Situ Resources

August 24-28, 2015
California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA 91125

Dennis Kochmann

California Institute of Technology

A. Scott Howe

Jet Propulsion
Laboratory

Rob Mueller

NASA
Kennedy Space Center

Workshop Overview:

This study will consider how three-dimensional (3D) additive construction using in-situ resources can vastly decrease the launch mass required to establish exploration infrastructure on other planetary surfaces. By combining digital manufacturing technologies and advanced robotics with a new understanding of in-situ space resources, materials and processes for extraction and utilization, we intend to explore how to gradually ease into in-situ production of structures and products that can offset the tremendous cost of bringing everything from Earth. First, we propose to understand how to produce low-tolerance structures and products produced locally in the target environment, seeded by precision subsystems and instruments exported from Earth. What sorts of technologies can be implemented immediately to get the process going? Next we would like to establish a vision for how to gradually reduce the terrestrial supply chain in a way that can be affordable and sustainable so they will not need to be transported from Earth, and space agencies will be more willing to fund the incremental steps. By using these new in-situ 3D additive technologies to create space mission architectures, and strategies, the dream of expanding human civilization into the solar system and creating a new space based economy will become possible.

Schedule

Monday, August 24, 2015 Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall - Guggenheim Building, Caltech
Short Course: Establishing Planetary Infrastructure with 3D Additive Construction and In-Situ Resources Introductory Lectures - Open to all interested students, researchers and faculty
Time	Event	Speaker
8:00 - 8:30	Coffee and Refreshments
8:30 - 8:45	Logistics / Introduction	Michele Judd Team Leads
8:45 - 9:30	Space Environments and Planetary Civil Engineering	Rob Mueller
9:30 - 10:15	Material Properties of Regolith and Other Materials Available on the Moon, Mars and Asteroids for 3D Additive Construction	Phil Metzger
10:15 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:30	Space Architecture	Scott Howe
11:30 - 12:15	Introduction to Robotics for 3D Additive Construction	Brian Wilcox
12:15 - 12:30	Final thoughts - Q&A	Team Leads
12:30 - 1:30	Informal Lunch and End of Short Course

Invitation Only Workshop Begins Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155
1:30 - 2:00	Walk to Keck Center for Coffee and Registration
2:00 - 2:45	Workshop Logistics and Introduction to KISS	Michele Judd Tom Prince
2:45 - 3:00	30 second Participant Introductions	Michele Judd
3:00 - 4:00	Desired goals and outcomes for the workshop; defining 3D additive construction vs. additive manufacturing. Explain parallel session of student design challenge.	Team Leads
4:00 - 4:30	Break
4:30 - 6:00	Begin plenary discussion on workshop format; collect ideas and topics participants want to know more about; identify lightning talks needed to "close the gap of knowledge" between the various disciplines; define what 3D Additive Construction state of art is today and document it in powerpoint	Team Leads
6:00 - 6:15	Pack up and walk to Athenaeum	All
6:15	Group dinner at the Athenaeum

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 JPL / Keck Center
Time	Event	Speaker
07:45	Check ids - load bus and any carpools
8:00 - 8:30	Drive to JPL and check-in at Visitor Control and walk up to Athlete Lab - Building 344
8:30 - Noon	ATHLETE lab, ATHLETE demo, KSC hardware demos, other demos-deliverables: identify state of the art hardware, ways to position printhead, excavation methods, material handling Show ATHLETE 3D printing demo and sintered basalt material samples, discuss materials and desired properties Lightning talks as applicable in this location Brainstorming Design Session: zero-g design	Michele Judd Team Leads
12:15	Group Picture and return badges to visitor center	Smile!
12:30 - 2:30	Drive back to lunch at the Athenaeum
2:30 - 3:30	3 lightning talks: 15 min + 5 minute discussion each	TBD at workshop
3:30 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 5:00	Brainstorming Design Session: finish zero-g design from the morning	TBD at workshop
5:00 - 6:30	Participant Poster Session and Pizza

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155
Time	Event	Speaker
8:00 - 8:30	Coffee and Refreshments
8:30 - 8:45	Logistics; Summary re-cap of day two and goals for day three	Michele Judd Team Leads
8:45 - 10:00	Define a 100 year, 50 Year 25 Year and 10 year vision	All
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:30	Write a Wikipedia article / technical paper on 3D Additive Construction - What is it?	All
11:30 - 12:30	Plenary Discussion and select breakout topics	All
12:30 - 2:00	Free time / lunch on your own
2:00 - 3:30	Splinter Sessions: 50-year roadmap & gaps, policy, etc.	All
3:30 - 4:00	Break
3:30 - 5:30	Splinter Sessions continued	All
6:00	Group Dinner at the Athenaeum

Thursday, August 27, 2015 Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155
Time	Event	Speaker
8:00 - 8:30	Coffee and Refreshments
8:30 - 8:45	Logistics: Summary re-cap of day three and goals for day four	Michele Judd Team Leads
8:45 - 10:00	Report outs from splinter groups	Splinter Leads
10:00 -10:30	Break
10:30 - 12:30	Plenary Discussion; Identify a space mission concept that would retire risks and gaps.	All
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch at the Athenaeum
2:00 - 4:00	Splinter Sessions - work on space mission concept	All
4:00 - 4:30	Break
4:30 - 5:15	Splinter Sessions continued	All
5:15 - 5:45	10 minute lightning report outs	Splinter Leads
6:00 - 7:45	Informal dinner at the Keck Center - guests, spouses, significant others welcome
8:00 - 9:15	Lecture in Beckman Auditorium	Don Pettit

Friday, August 28, 2015 Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155
Time	Event	Speaker
8:00 - 8:30	Coffee and Refreshments
8:30 - 8:45	Logistics and Objectives for final day	Michele Judd Team Leads
8:45 - 10:00	Present Mission Concept Finalize Wikipedia Article for publishing, writing assignments for technical paper	All
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - Noon	Organize Report Writing assignments and briefing notes for Keck/NASA leadership	All
12:00 -12:30	KISS recap	Michele Judd
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch - Informal lunch at the Institute
1:30 - 4:00	Student outbrief of 3D Printing Habitat Concepts	All
4:00	End of Formal Workshop	All

List of Attendees

Workshop Participants:

Hisham Ali - Georgia Institute of Technology
Christian Andersen - PISCES
Wesley Chambers - University of Central Florida
Corky Clinton - NASA/MSFC
Xavier De Kestelier - Foster+Partners
Kaye Ebelt - National Science Foundation
Shai Gerner - University of Pennsylvania
Douglas Hofmann – JPL/Caltech
A. Scott Howe - JPL/Caltech
Erika Ilves - Shackleton Energy Company
Alex Jerves - Caltech
Jim Keravala - Shackleton Energy Company
Behrokh Khoshnevis - University of Southern California
Dennis Kochmann – Caltech
Sungwoo Lim - The Open University
Philip Metzger - University of Central Florida
Lucas Meza - Caltech
Rob Mueller - NASA/KSC
Takashi Nakamura - Physical Sciences Inc.
Andrew Nelson - US Army ERDC
Harry Partridge - NASA/Ames Research Center
Donald Pettit – NASA/JSC
Rod Pyle – Caltech Campus
Eric Reiners - Caterpillar Inc.
Andrew Shapiro - JPL/Caltech
Brian Wilcox - JPL/Caltech
Alex Zelhofer - Caltech

Presentations

Short Course Presentations
Rob Mueller NASA/Kennedy Space Center	Space Environments and Planetary Civil Engineering (3.57 MB .pdf) (video)
Phil Metzger University of Central Florida	Material Properties of Regolith and Other Materials Available on the Moon, Mars and Asteroids for 3D Additive Construction (8.35 MB .pdf) (video)
A. Scott Howe JPL/Caltech	Space Architecture (9.57 MB .pdf) (video)
Brian Wilcox JPL/Caltech	Introduction to Robotics for 3D Additive Construction (907 KB .pdf) (video)

Workshop Presentations
Jennifer Edmunson ESSSA Contract NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	Planetary Resources (1 MB .pdf)
Jim Keravala Shackleton Energy Company	Keck 3D Construction Workshop SEC OWC Overview (3.9 MB .pdf)
Xavier De Kestelier Foster+Partners	The World's First 3-D Printed (9.7 MB .pdf)
Phil Metzger University of Central Florida	Industrial Production Processes for Materials on the Moon, Asteroids and Mars (93 KB .pdf)
Takashi Nakamura Physical Sciences Inc.	Solar Thermal Power System for ISRU Applications Field Deployment and Operation at Mauna Kea, HI (4.57 MB .pdf)
Brian Wilcox JPL/Caltech	Projections for Space Robotics 2015-2035 (587 KB .pdf)

Poster Session
Luis Gil	Economically Variable Space Station (.jpg)
Allison Klute	Satellite Capturing, Remediation and Processor (.jpg)
Ally Kit	Space Track (.jpg)
Jeremy Brunel	Space Port 2045 (.jpg)
	Cereus EVSS (.jpg)
Langs	Invert Planet (.jpg)
	Metha-Fly (.jpg)
M. Trujillo, A. Escobar	EVSS (.jpg)
A. Scott Howe JPL/Caltech	Future Directions (7.24 MB .pdf)
Xavier De Kestelier Foster+Partners	3D-Printing a Lunar Base (video)
Takashi Nakamura Physical Sciences Inc.	3-D Additive Construction for Space - Solar Powered Materials Processing (9.97 MB .pdf)

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