Guide: Mars, our neighbor, the most like planet in the solar system and the earth. As of August 6, 2021, China’s first Mars rover “Zhu Rong” has been working on the surface of Mars for 82 Martian days, with a cumulative mileage of over 800 meters! For a long time, humans have not stopped exploring Mars. Not only Mars, humans will one day immigrate to more planets, explore, land, settle…
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Company ICON is planning3D printingA habitat in order to accurately reproduce the conditions that future astronauts will experience when they visit the surface of Mars. It is not difficult to think that the purpose of such a construction project is to make preparations in advance for future Martian immigrants.
The 1,700-square-foot building structure code-named “Mars Dune Alpha” will use ICON’s Vulcan
3D printingAircraft construction and long-term mission simulation at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. NASA has conducted a three-year field test to evaluate the efficacy of its nutritional system and the physical and behavioral effects of long-term exposure to the conditions of the Red Planet.
ICON’s ambition to move to extraterrestrial space
ICON utilizes its proprietary Vulcan
3D printingThe machine (printable area is about 2,000 square feet), in the past few years has begun a large-scale multinational construction program. As early as 2018, the company raised $9 million and partnered with the non-profit organization “New Story” to use some of the cash to build the first authorized print house in the United States.
Mars Dune Alpha, designed by the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is being built from the ground up to simulate the possible survival experience of astronauts on the surface of Mars. According to ICON, the building will have different characteristic ceiling heights, divided by an overall shell, and each area will provide a “unique experience” for the crew to avoid monotony and fatigue of the space.
In terms of layout, the Mars base will include four private residences, workstations,
Medical treatment
Stations and food-growing areas, and find a shared living space between the two. The habitat will also be equipped with customizable lighting, temperature and sound controls, as well as movable furniture, so that resident astronauts can truly turn it into a home.
Although ICON’s exploration in the aerospace field is in construction3D printingThe field is a bit rare, but the scale of concrete additive manufacturing structures is still growing rapidly.Just last month, the Dubai Water and Power Authority (DEWA) opened a complete3D printingThis allows it to make significant progress in its operations.
Elsewhere, in the Netherlands, construction companies BAM and WeberBeamix have begun to build the world’s longest3D printingConcrete footbridge. Once completed in Nijmegen, the structure will reach a length of 29.5 meters (or 97 feet), 11 feet longer than the current record holder built by the Tsinghua University team.
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