Lunar Regolith Simulant Team

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Lunar Regolith SimulantTeam
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• Nicole Tramp
• Kim Kerce
• Brooke OBryan
• Adam Well
• Nate Saunders
• Andrew Kelley
• Clinton Foster
• Will Ealy

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Objective

• Produce a lunar regolith simulant via a more
  efficient and feasible method than current
  processes.

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Primary Customer Needs

• The final anticipated design project has three
  areas of possible work.
• The first and most important is utilizing
  separation technology to reduce the cost of
  current simulant materials. Primarily this would
  be aimed generally at removing minerals that do
  not occur on the moon
• Of secondary importance is better understanding
  of the major mineral constituents of the lunar
  surface, particularly related to how these
  minerals fracture under load.
• Of at least equal importance to the size and
  shape issues, understanding how mineral
  beneficiation processes are altered by lunar
  conditions is of great importance to successfully
  achieving future mission goals.