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Stage 1 construction of SAM is funded!

We are pleased to announce that the University of Arizona’s Tech Launch Arizona has provided funded for Stage 1 construction of SAM, a Space Analog for the Moon and Mars at the iconic Biosphere 2.

Tech Launch Arizona sees a unique opportunity to develop methods, procedures, and product driven IP for the advancement of human space exploration while improving our management of resources and sustained agriculture on Earth in the context of a changing climate.

This sets in motion the long-range plan to integrate SIMOC and SAM, where SIMOC improves its model of the complex nature of a human-in-the-loop closed ecosystem through data captured during SAM operations. SIMOC will then be given an AI engine with which it can monitor, manage, and control advanced, hermetically sealed human habitats on the Moon and Mars.

Cheers,
Kai Staats, Director of SAM at B2

By |2021-04-23T05:16:58+00:00October 30th, 2020|Categories: In the news|0 Comments

SIMOC, SAM presented at the Mars Society Convention

SIMOC at Mars Society Convention 2020

The Mars Society’s 23rd Annual International Mars Society Convention will convene Thursday-Sunday, October 15-18, 2020, across this planet via the Internet!

The Mars Society’s four-day, international, virtual conference brings together leading scientists, government policymakers, commercial space executives, science journalists and space advocates to discuss the latest scientific and technological developments and challenges related to the human and robotic exploration of Mars and the eventual human settlement of the Red Planet.

Kai Staats will give a talk and live demonstration of SIMOC followed by a unveiling of SAM, a hi-fidelity, hermetically sealed Mars analog being constructed at the iconic Biosphere 2. [download slides (PDF)]

By |2021-06-20T00:54:31+00:00October 13th, 2020|Categories: Publications, Videos|0 Comments

UA Engineering Capstone joins SAM!

We are pleased to welcome Ahmed Alraeesi, Arfan Wibisono, Coby Scheidemantel, Gustavo Velez, James Marlar, Meghan Marlowe, and Nathan Moeller as the first University of Arizona students to work on the Space Analog for the Moon & Mars. They will work with Kai Staats and John Adams at Biosphere 2, and Doug May with the University of Arizona to build a fully functional, scaled Automated Pressure Regulation System (APRS), a demonstration of a mechanical means to regular pressure in a lunar or martian habitat.

By |2025-02-20T06:10:32+00:00August 31st, 2020|Categories: Research & Development|0 Comments
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