The U.S. is planning a joint venture with private companies to study the possibility of biological production in space, in order to build a distribution network for future lunar orbit missions and Mars missions. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently issued a tender. The cost of a space mission and the amount of reliance on Earth objects.

The National Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) calls this project biocommunication: Survival, Utility, and Reliability (Bioman Manufacturing: Survival, Utility and Reliability, B-SURE). In the bio-manufacturing technology of medicine and industrial production, bacteria have evolved to produce on the surface of different types of space, the moon or Mars.

The main purpose of this research is to observe whether these bacteria are able to “eat” the Earth under the influence of radiation, weightless or under low gravity, and whether they can interact with the surface debris (regoliath) of the Moon or Mars. To build a precursor.

“The B-Sure Project is a preliminary study by the Future Space Force to build a distribution network between the Moon and Mars.” DARPA project manager Anne Cheever said the U.S. Department of Defense plans to build a distribution station in space in the future. Manufacturing of bio-manufacturing and 3D printing technology, fuel, batteries, satellites, and parts of spacecraft to reduce the weight of the launch from the ground.

In addition to the B-SURE project, DARPA has previously launched another project, NOM4D (Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, Mass Efficient Design). The goal is to develop construction on the surface of the space orbits of the Moon and Mars. The technology of large-scale facilities, therefore, the two projects NOM4D and B-SURE are important basic research into whether the U.S. military can build a space distribution network in the future.

The DARPA said it would begin research on the role of bacteria in high – radiation, low – gravity atmospheres at the B – Shur International Space Station (ISS).

Following the issuance of the B-SURE Auction Announcement, DARPA expects to select successful bidders next year and formally begin research activities.

(Source of the first image:ISS National Laboratory)