COMEX, partner in the RegoLight consortium, participated in the first Moon Village Association Workshop held at ISU in Strasbourg, France 19.-21. November 2017. The keynote speech for the event…

BBC World Service programme radio documentary: The First Woman on the Moon with Wally Funk DLR after 34:00 and Miranda Fateri, representing RegoLight project after 39:00   >Listen

RegoLight partner Space Application Services is testing the Mobile Printer with lunar soil simulant and normal sand. The process of sintering samples for material tests and interlocking building elements…

Article Updated: 21 July 2017, featured on the 3D Printing Media Network website

19 July 2017 – Article: Colonising the moon rests on 3D printing bricks from lunar dust – Prof. Matthias Sperl

3 May 2017 – Project RegoLight is featured on the esa website with the article titled: Printing Bricks from Moondust using the Sun’s Heat “Bricks have been 3D printed…

Engineers Bollinger & Grohmann offer the structural analysis for the RegoLight project; approaching the project from both large and small scale. At the small scale, sintered simulant regolith is…

An extensive exploration of interlocking geometries was conducted. After thorough consideration of different structural typologies and construction principles, a single Tetrahedron-type geometry was selected as the essential building element…

Scenario development looks at established mission scenarios and develops innovative applications for solar-sintered lunar infrastructure elements; also considered is State-of-the-Art Additive Manufacturing (AM) Technology. LSG, COMEX and Bollinger &…

Based on the principles of an actual 3D printer, the x,y,z, translation table displaces the printing area (the regolith tray) under the fixed solar beam. The different trajectories that…