EVIDENCE SOURCEVL-SRC-001COMMUNITY TECHNICAL EXCHANGEINGESTED INTO RESEARCH BASE
NASA Regolith Roundtable — Best Practices and Insights for Working with Regolith in Flight Testing
- Date
- 4 June 2025
- Organization
- NASA Flight Opportunities Community of Practice
- Publication type
- Community roundtable / technical exchange
- Date reviewed
- August 2026
- Source URL
- Open original source (opens in new tab)
Extracted areas
Simulant selection practiceParticle-size distributionVacuum testingReduced-gravity testingCompactionPressure-sinkagePlume-surface interactionRegolith sintering
Engineering relevance
Informs Vectoris assumptions and open gaps for regolith handling, compaction, plume-surface interaction and ISRU-related structural context. It is not used as a structural design standard.
Limitations
- Not a design standard
- Not site-specific South Pole geotechnical data
- Does not provide structural allowables
- Not authored by Vectoris