SMT’s core mission is to provide critical resources and technologies enabling sustainable space exploration and future settlements of the Moon and Mars. To achieve this, it is consensual that In-situ resources utilisation (ISRU) needs to be mastered: i.e. harvesting, storage, and transformation of locally available materials whenever this is advantageous against an Earth-based supply chain. However, ISRU poses some major challenges in terms of operations, energy usage, and resource management.