FMRG: Eco: GOALI: CAS: Understanding the Sustainability Framework for Convergent In-Space Manufacturing

FMRG：Eco：GOALI：CAS：了解融合空间制造的可持续发展框架

• 批准号: 2328383
• 负责人: Weiwei Mo
• 金额: $ 299.55万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2328383&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FMRG; Eco; GOALI; CAS; Understanding

With the democratization and commercialization of space poised to springboard the next generation of space technologies, scientific discoveries, and explorations, distinct advantages will be realized by whichever nation first establishes these “factories-in-space” for manufacturing, assembly, repair, and reclamation in non-terrestrial environments. Recent advances in the space industry have brought humanity closer to exploring potential ways to utilize space resources and protect the Earth’s environment. With the emerging interests and technological progress in in-space manufacturing (ISM), it is of utmost importance to conceptualize the fundamental principles of ISM sustainability and to guide its technological development through these principles to ensure that the pursuit of progress aligns with the goals of environmental stewardship and long-term viability. There is a significant national need to advance sustainable ISM to be a world leader in such knowledge and technologies, as is reflected in national budget priorities and critical emerging technologies list. The long-term Earth and humanity benefits from ISM are immense, especially in the context of globally pressing challenges related to climate change, resource depletion, environmental pollution, and population growth. The overarching goal of this project is to enable a sustainable space industry that minimizes its impact on the Earth and space environments. The project integrates research, education, and workforce development to provide career awareness and preparation in support of a future diverse and inclusive workforce knowledgeable in technical and societal best practices for ISM. The project is supported by the Division of Materials Research (DMR) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), and co-funded by the Division of Translational Impacts (TI) in the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) in the Office of Integrated Activities (OIA) in the Office of the Director (OD).The proposed work converges multi-process and multi-material interfacial manufacturing, sustainable engineering, and participatory science to serve as a benchmark to re-imagine a new form of space commerce that manufactures at the point-of-need. The team will investigate how existing resources in space, such as metallic space debris and lunar regolith, can be used to manufacture products for use in space and reduce the supply from Earth. Mechanisms by which variables akin to multi-material and multi-process interfacial engineering influence the sustainability and quality of ISM products will be identified. The vision is to realize a flexible hybrid ISM platform allowing the fabrication of an array of specialty, one-off parts using resources available in space with the Earth and space environmental impacts and benefits clearly and accurately assessed and attained. This research integrates approaches and tools, including participatory modeling, hybrid asynchronous additive and forming process design and modeling, experimental verification of ISM with simulated space conditions, post-process mechanical performance evaluation, prospective life cycle assessment, scenario analysis, and multi-objective decision-making, to pioneer the development of a sustainability framework for ISM.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

随着在下一代太空技术，科学发现和探索的空间的民主化和商业化中，无论哪个国家首先在非透视环境中建立这些“空间空间”，以实现这些“空间空间”，从而实现明显的优势。太空行业的最新进展使人类更接近探索利用太空资源并保护地球环境的潜在方法。随着空间制造业（ISM）的新兴利益和技术进步，概念化ISM可持续性的基本原则，并通过这些原则来指导其技术发展，以确保对进步的追求与环境管理和长期稳定性的目标保持一致，这一点至关重要。正如国家预算优先事项和关键的新兴技术清单所反映的那样，国家有很大的国家需要促进可持续的ISM成为世界领导者。 ISM的长期地球和人类受益于ISM的影响，尤其是在与气候变化，资源部署，环境污染和人口增长有关的全球紧迫挑战的背景下。该项目的总体目标是实现可持续的太空行业，以最大程度地减少其对地球和空间环境的影响。该项目集成了研究，教育和劳动力发展，以提供职业意识和准备，以支持未来的多样性和包容性的劳动力在ISM的技术和社会最佳实践中知识渊博。该项目得到了材料研究部（DMR）在数学和物理科学局（MPS）的支持，并由转化影响（TI）的分工（TI）在技术，创新和合作伙伴关系局（TIP）局（TI）共同资助（TI），工程教育与中心（EEC）的竞争计划（EEC）的竞争（EEC）竞争（EEC），以启发（EEC），以启发（Engultion Engiveering）（Engultion Engineing（Enguntion）（ENGINTIST），并启发了竞争者（ENG）（ENGINTIST），并在竞争中竞争（ENG）（EEC）的竞争力（EEC）（EEC）（EEC）（EEC），并具有竞争力（EEC）的竞争（ENG）（EEC）（EEC）（EEC），并（OIA）在主任办公室（OD）。拟议的工作融合了多进程和多物质界面制造，可持续工程和参与科学，以作为重新想象一种在需要点生产的新型太空商业形式的基准。该团队将调查如何使用金属空间碎片和月球岩石等空间中的现有资源来制造用于太空的产品并减少地球的供应。类似于多物质和多进程界面工程的变量的机制将影响ISM产品的可持续性和质量。愿景是实现一个灵活的混合ISM平台，允许使用太空中可用的资源，具有地球和空间环境的影响，并具有清晰，准确的评估和附件，并使用太空中可用的资源进行一系列专业，一次性零件的结构。这项研究集成了方法和工具，包括参与建模，混合异步添加剂和形成过程设计和建模，ISM对ISM的实验验证，具有模拟空间条件的实验验证，后期制作的机械性能评估，前瞻性生命周期评估，场景分析以及多目标的决策，以促进ISM. The STAT的发展，以指出ISM.THSF的发展。使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准进行评估。