• Home
  • IAF Digital Library
  • Public Website
  • My papers
  • Home
  • event
  • IAC-24
  • A2
  • 8
  • session 8

    Title

    In-Space Manufacturing and Production Applications

    type

    oral

    Description

    In-space manufacturing represents an emerging capability that can revolutionize space exploration and utilization. Producing parts, tools, and even spacecraft in space eliminates the constraints and costs of launching every item from Earth. An IAC session would provide an important forum to share progress, innovations, and lessons learned. Speakers could highlight techniques like additive manufacturing with novel materials for spacecraft production and repair. Experts could also discuss biomanufacturing applications like tissue engineering and biomedicine production leveraging microgravity. Operators could share insights on managing material processing and fabrication off Earth. The symposium would connect leaders across disciplines tackling these technical challenges and catalyze innovations. As humanity expands into space, in-space manufacturing provides sustainability and cost benefits by enabling self-sufficiency. Terrestrially, it opens new avenues for manufacturing products impossible to produce in normal gravity. Commercial space companies are poised to benefit from reduced launch costs. As public and private entities target manufacturing in space, IAC participation would accelerate advances in this transformative field and maximize downstream applications on Earth.

    Date

    2024-10-15

    Time

    15:00

    Room

    Yellow Hall 3

    IPC members
    • Co-Chair: Dr. Fathi Karouia, NASA Ames Research Center, Blue Marble Space Institute Of Science; BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado Boulder, United States;

    • Co-Chair: Prof. David Estrada, Boise State University (BSU), United States;

    • Rapporteur: Dr. Albert Houcine TOUATI, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), France;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    15:00

    In-Space Manufacturing - 2024 Industry Survey, Trends, Economics and Enablers

    12

    confirmed

    Mr. Erik Kulu

    Estonia

    2

    15:12

    In-Space Manufacturing: Facts and Myths

    12

    confirmed

    Dr. Ioana Cozmuta

    International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)

    United States

    3

    15:24

    Manufacturing experiments achievement sharing in microgravity and future prospects by the key laboratory of Space Manufacturing Technology

    12

    confirmed

    Dr. YIFEI LIU

    Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    China

    4

    15:36

    Manufacturing Better Drugs in Microgravity

    12

    confirmed

    Dr. Molly Mulligan

    Redwire Space

    United States

    5

    15:48

    A Path towards Printed Electronics in Space: Transfer and Evaporation of Colloidal Droplets in Microgravity

    12

    confirmed

    Dr. Weibin Li

    National Microgravity Laboratory, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

    China

    6

    16:00

    One Microgravity Technology, Three Human Health Applications

    12

    confirmed

    Ms. Sreelakshmi Sita Sonty

    Space Tango

    United States

    7

    16:12

    An Experimental Investigation of Microgravity Conditions on FDM-Based In-Space Additive Manufacturing

    12

    confirmed

    Ms. Angela Huang

    York University

    Canada

    8

    16:24

    In-Space Expansion of Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Technical Progress, Economic Potential, and Commercialization Challenges

    12

    confirmed

    Dr. Fathi Karouia

    NASA Ames Research Center, Blue Marble Space Institute Of Science; BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado Boulder

    United States

    9

    16:36

    Additive manufacturing of lunar regolith via resin-based binder and material extrusion method for high-performance in-space manufacturing on the moon

    12

    confirmed

    Dr. Tongcai Wang

    Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

    China

    10

    16:48

    Development of In Space Manufacturing Capabilities for the Production of Protein-Based Artificial Retinas

    12

    confirmed

    Dr. Nicole Wagner

    United States

    11

    17:00

    Development of Economically Feasible Microgravity Diamond Manufacturing Technology for Space Commercialization

    10

    withdrawn

    Mr. Aman Bhavsar

    Vellore Institute of Technology

    India

    12

    17:10

    Rhodium Scientific Enables Space Biomanufacturing: Developing Biological Strains and Standard Processes for LEO and Beyond

    10

    confirmed

    Dr. Heath Mills

    United States

    13

    17:20

    Sustainable Space Stations: The Integration of Bioreactors and Adaptive Laboratory Evolution for Succinic Acid Production

    10

    Mrs. Daniela Bezdan

    University of Tübingen

    Germany