DEFINITION:

This section includes dust mitigation and technology candidates for construction, assembly, and deployment of destination systems hardware.

(Source: NASA TA7.6)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation: Includes a layered engineering defense that incorporates technologies for contamination prevention, exterior cleaning and protection, interior cleaning and protection, and preserving gas quality, as well as technologies associated with modeling plume and soil interactions.
2. Construction and Assembly: Includes technologies for construction and assembly of in-space and surface structures and completing construction or assembly of deployable systems. Both traditional construction and assembly concepts and advanced deployable systems are included. Since most of the needed Construction and Assembly capability technologies are being developed under other areas (such as 1-J (Robotics), 1-I  (Science Instruments, Observatories, and Sensors), 1-A (Systems), 1-B-2 (Special types of Structures), as well as 1-K-1, 1-K-3, 1-K-4, 1-K-5 and 1-K-9), these technologies are focused on shape charges for excavation and fabric blast debris protection.