Enabling Research Areas
• ISRU Materials Development for Structures and Machinery
• High-fidelity Simulant Characterization and Testing
• Multi-scale Modeling for Materials Formation, Radiation Degradation
• Planning and Requirements Building for Infrastructure
• Additive, Subtractive and Automated Construction
• Robotics and System Integration
• Materials, Power, CNC for fully autonomous
• Testing of Human/Robotic-Assisted Operations
• Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
• Sensors and Embedded Systems (for Precision Navigation and Timing)
• Synthetic Environments
• Planetary Analog Studies
Laboratories and Testing Facilities
• Advanced Multi-scale Infrastructure Materials Characterization
• Small-to-Large Scale Seismic/Vibrational Testing
• Mission Control Room for Teleoperations Testing
• Hypervelocity Chamber for Meteoritic Impact Testing
• Center for Radiation Engineering and Science for Space Exploration
• Aerospace Human Systems Laboratory (AHSL) (PoC bjdunbar@tamu.edu)
• Human-Rated Short-Radius Centrifuge (Acquired from JSC) PoC bjdunbar@tamu.edu
• AeroSpace Technology Research and Operations (ASTRO) Lab
• Land, Air and Space Research Lab (LASR)
• Aggie Satellite Lab (to build space-ready instruments)
• Innovation Proving Ground Complex
• Autonomous Operations in Challenging Environments
• 1km-long, 2m-diameter Hypersonic Impact Tube
• Lunar Yard for Excavation, Construction and Mining
• Regolith Test Beds: High-Fidelity Simulants, Large-Scale Testing (proposed)
• Regolith Dust Chambers for suited astronaut and rover testing (proposed)
• X-Large “dirty” TVAC (notional)
Contact Information
For more information, reach out to Dr. Suermann.