The animation shows the current design for interlocking building elements and their application for a lunar base scenario.

A range of geometries were developed to serve as interlocking building elements for the construction of main infrastructure components of a lunar base, i.e radiation shielding for inhabited and…

November 2017 The vacuum chamber was operated by DLR’s solar oven group, and could reach an absolute pressure of 1 mbar. It provided multiple electrical connection points and well…

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…