Titan!
A near-infrared view of Titan showing its glinting seas.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
Photography by Matias Alonso Revelli
Project “Olympus,” Moon,
Project Olympus is about finding a way to create a 3D-printed infrastructure for living on the moon using materials found on its surface.
In partnership with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, ICON will test lunar soil simulant with various processing and printing technologies. The tests will help design, develop, and demonstrate prototype elements for a possible future full-scale additive construction system that could print infrastructure on the Moon.
ICON has engaged two award-winning architecture firms as partners for the audacious project: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, renowned for their iconic international architecture and SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture), a company recognized on a global scale for their innovative ‘human-centered’ designs for space exploration.
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and SEArch+ as Architectural Partners,
Icon: 3D Builder
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Happy World Oceans Day !
Every 8 June, we have an opportunity to raise global awareness of the benefits humankind derives from the ocean and our individual and collective duty to use its resources sustainably.
Future generations will also depend on the ocean for their livelihoods!
Together let’s celebrate all that the ocean gives us every day: from the oxygen we breathe to the inspiration that moves our poets.
“No Water, No Life. No Blue, no Green.”
Sylvia Earle
Aerial view of the Indian Ocean by Morgan Maassen
“GalaXsea” by Eugeni Quitllet,
The first space solar sail boat 3D-printed in space.