Planetary Simulant Database
Free Resource for Regolith Simulant Information
Mineralogy
No data available
Bulk Chemistry
| Oxide | Wt.& |
|---|---|
| SiO2 | 52.69 |
| TiO2 | 1.01 |
| Al2O3 | 15.91 |
| FeO | 12.28 |
| MnO | 0.22 |
| MgO | 5.41 |
| CaO | 9.36 |
| Na2O | 1.9 |
| K2O | 0.58 |
| P2O5 | 0.14 |
| LOI | 0.5 |
| Total | 100 |
Physical Properties
No data available
MKS-1
Simulant Name: MKS-1
Availability: May Be Available
Fidelity: Standard
Developed By: Shimizu Corporation?
Available From: N/A
Publications: N/A
There is some uncertainty regarding this simulant. Materials from simulant workshops list MKS-1 as a low-Ti mare simulant developed by Marshall Space Flight Center, and reference ‘Carpenter 2005’. A PowerPoint presentation from a 2005 ISRU workshop by Paul Carpenter of Marshall compares several lunar simulants, and on a supplementary slide gives a bulk chemistry for ‘MKS-1’, reproduced here. This is the same chemistry listed for MKS-1 in a paper describing CAS-1, and the authors cite Kanamori et al. 1998. Kanamori et al. 1998 describes the FJS line of simulants, but makes no mention of an ‘MKS-1’. Other sources cite Kanamori et al. 2000, a conference paper titled ‘Study on the Utilization of Lunar Resources’. We could not track down a copy of this study.
It appears then that MKS-1 may have been another simulant produced by the Shimizu Corporation in Japan, but its nature (other than a bulk chemistry) and status are unknown. It seems unlikely this simulant has anything to do with Marshall.
