53 citations · 82 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
astro-ph.EP2019★ 29 cited
Measuring the Fidelity of Asteroid Regolith and Cobble Simulants
Philip T. Metzger, Daniel T. Britt, Stephen Covey +5
NASA has developed a "Figure of Merit" method to grade the fidelity of lunar simulants for scientific and engineering purposes. Here we extend the method to grade asteroid simulant…
physics.pop-ph2016★ 53 cited
Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping of the Space Industry and Solar System Civilization
Philip T. Metzger, Anthony Muscatello, Robert P. Mueller +1
Advances in robotics and additive manufacturing have become game-changing for the prospects of space industry. It has become feasible to bootstrap a self-sustaining, self-expanding…