Enabling technologies for space exploration systems: The STEPS project results and perspectives

A methodology for innovative technologies roadmaps assessment to support strategic decisions for future space exploration

“…Many references can be found in literature dealing with the issue of exploration enabling technologies, which report roadmaps according to the plans of space agencies [10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. The innovative aspect of the work presented in this paper is related to the tool that has been built to support strategic decisions for human space exploration and particularly to the methodology that has been defined to build such a tool.…”