Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany

DLR (Institute of Space Systems, Bremen site) is appointed as the coordinator due to its experience in managing space projects of different budgets and scopes, which includes EU projects with a technology development, manufacturing and assembly component (e.g. EDEN ISS). Furthermore, DLR’s experience in systems engineering, especially in utilizing the Concurrent Engineering for a fast and consistent design of the validation test setup, will reduce the duration of the design phase significantly. DLR also has extensive knowledge in ISRU system development with an own research group located at its Bremen site, including laboratory and workshop space.

Team members:
Dr. Paul Zabel – Project Lead
Rieke Freer – PhD candidate, working on ISRU water purification and raw water simulant
Luca Kiewiet – PhD candidate, developing ISRU water extraction technologies
Ines Sander – Administrative and financial management
The DLR team is complemented with student assistants from different disciplines.

 

LIQUIFER Systems Group, Austria

LIQUIFER Systems Group is a leading partner in configuration architecture, designing space habitats and space analogue tests having access to facilities. In the LUWEX project, LIQUIFER is responsible for the definition of system requirements, the harmonization of the overall requirement set as well as the coherence of the interface. Additionally, due to their experience in public engagement activities (multiple video documentaries for ESA, diverse websites for projects and companies, and podcasts for radio stations and internet platforms), LIQUIFER is responsible for strategy and materials for dissemination, exploitation and communication of the LUWEX project.

Team members:
Barbara Imhof – Team Lead
René Walavicek
Monika Brandić Lipińska
Robert Davenport
Chris Gilbert

 

Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics

The TU Braunschweig LUWEX group has year-long experience in studying granular matter under planetary conditions, both experimentally and using computers. These conditions comprise low to high gravity levels, vacuum, or rarefied gas environments and very low to very high temperatures. The responsibilities of the TU Braunschweig in the LUWEX project range from a thorough study of the state-of-the-art in lunar-regolith description to the provision of a large thermal-vacuum chamber in which the water extraction experiments shall be carried out.

Team members:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Blum – Team lead
Christopher Kreuzig – PhD student, responsible for the thermal-vacuum chamber
Johanna Bürger – PhD student, responsible for lunar-regolith model

 

Scanway sp. z o. o., Poland

Scanway’s role in LUWEX project is to provide a part of the water quality control system. The equipment delivered by the company will be based on the LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) measurement technique, which allows to check the surface chemical composition of the material – in this case water. Such system will be able to tell if the extracted water stays within desired limits of the selected quality standards.

Team members:
Jędrzej Kowalewski – Team lead
Szymon Krawczuk
Mikołaj Podgórski
Michał Zięba
Agnieszka Przybylska

 

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Faculty of Environmental Engineering
The Wroclaw University for Science and Technology (WUST) LUWEX team has a strong educational and academic research background in terrestrial water supply, sewage, water treatment, microbiology, environmental protection, waste management and water quality. In LUWEX project WUST responsibilities are water quality and condition monitoring and the investigation of the potential terrestrial applications.

Team members:
Karol Leluk – Team leam
Sławomir Szerzyna
Aleksandra Cichoń
Aleksandra Klimonda
Anna Jurga

 

Thales Alenia Space, Italy

Thales Alenia Space has responsibilities at system and subsystem level. At system level we are responsible for technical coordination and roadmapping toward future space applications. At subsystem level we are responsible for the development and testing of the extracted raw water purification stage.

Team members:
Giorgio Musso – PM
Giorgio Boscheri – Technical coordinator – Team lead
Rachele Perelli – Process engineer
Giovanni Marchitelli – Test engineer
Thomas Fili – Automation engineer