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Multidisciplinary Investigation of System using Sintering Instrumentation Of the Next generation

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  • Extended microwave heating and oxygen extraction experiment campaign - With the new microwave cavity developed for the Microwave Heating Demonstrator (MHD) Payload   
    • Duration: 12/2022 – 02/2024
    • Principal Investigator: Sungwoo Lim (£200k)
    • Partners: VIPER RF, Added Value Solutions UK Ltd.
    • Funder: Enabling Space Exploration Grant, UK Space Agency
  • Microwave Heating Demonstrator (MHD) Payload – Develop Hardware Of 250W Microwave Generator And Oxygen/water Extraction Subsystem   
    • Duration: 11/2021 – 05/2022
    • Principal Investigator: Sungwoo Lim (£175k)
    • Partners: VIPER RF, Added Value Solutions UK Ltd.
    • Funder: Space Exploration Technology Grant, UK Space Agency
  • Microwave heating Apparatus of lunar Regolith for Variant Experiments of Lunar ISRU missions (MARVEL)
  • Cavity Development for the Microwave Heating Demonstrator Payload    
    • Duration: 11/2020 – 03/2021
    • Principal Investigator: Sungwoo Lim (£75k)
    • Partners: Added Value Solutions UK Ltd., VIPER RF
    • Funder: NSTP Pathfinder Grant, UK Space Agency
  • 3D Printing data conversion for fabricating aerospace components
    • Duration: 06/2020 – 01/2021    
    • Global Technical Advisor: Sungwoo Lim (20M KRW, approx. £13,230)
    • Funder: The Korean Institute for Advanced Technology
  • Microwave Heating Demonstrator (MHD) payload
    • Duration: 12/2019 – 03/2020    
    • Principal Investigator: Sungwoo Lim (£10k)
    • Partner: Added Value Solutions UK Ltd.
    • Funder: NSTP Grants for Exploratory Ideas (GEI), UK Space Agency
  • Manufacturing a bespoke microwave heating device
    • Duration: 11/2017 – 10/2018                  
    • Principal Investigator: Sungwoo Lim (£29,491)
    • Funder: Space Strategic Research Area (SRA) Grant, The Open University
  • Space Architecture technology - Proof of concept study
    • Duration: 04/2014 – 03/2015                 
    • Principal Investigator: Sungwoo Lim (£18,350)
    • Funder: PVC (Research and Scholarship) Multidisciplinary Research Fund, The Open University

Contact us

Dr Sungwoo Lim
Senior Research Fellow in Space Instrumentation
Tel: 01908 332126
Email: Sungwoo Lim

Dr Mahesh Anand
Professor in Planetary Science and Exploration
Tel: 01908 858551
Email: Mahesh Anand

School of Physical Sciences
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA, UK