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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
§ 4.1.1 Zero gravity to any gravity (centrifuge)
§ 4.2 Separating elements and minerals by simple methods
§ 4.2.1 Magnetic separation of free nickel-iron metal § 4.3 Construction materials from minimally processed bulk lunar and asteroidal soils
§ 4.3.1 Overview of fiberglass, ceramics, glasses, lunarcrete", "astercrete", sintering, casting
§ 4.4 Separating elements and/or oxides from minerals or bulk material
§ 4.4.1 Electrolysis of minerals
§ 4.5 Producing high temperature refractories
§ 4.6 Waste disposal
§ 4.7 Manufacturing overview
§ 4.7.1 Vapor and droplet deposition in vacuum
§ 4.8 Automation and teleoperation (robotics)
§ 4.8.1 Introduction
§ 4.9 Bootstrapping You are currently on this page: PERMANENT.com > Manufacturing, Industry Additional, children pages of this current parent page: Manufacturing, Industry :
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