Space Bioindustrial Architecture

A Claim-Control Methodology for Low-Resupply Lunar and Martian Settlement Capability

Abstract

Future lunar and Martian surface architectures require defensible methods for determining when specific systems can be counted as maintained settlement capability rather than merely as mission support, technology demonstration, or scientific promise. Existing space-systems engineering, verification and validation, reliability, life-support, bioregenerative, and assurance-case methods are necessary for this task, but they do not by themselves define when an exact low-resupply capability package earns infrastructure credit, when it must be refused, or what gaps must be closed before reconsideration. This article introduces the Space Bioindustrial Architecture (SBA), a claim-control methodology specified around registry records: controlled records of case assumptions, package versions, evidence, authority boundaries, claim states, gaps, and requalification triggers. SBA evaluates declared cases, exact claims, complete capability packages, evidence sufficiency, authorized boundaries, lifecycle burden, interruption recovery, baseline displacement, and formal claim states. The method is demonstrated through PBR-001, a workbook-executed reference case evaluating a PBR@LSR-derived Chlorella vulgaris lunar photobioreactor package for a four-crew, 28-day lunar South Pole early-habitation case, with physicochemical ECLSS retaining crew-safety responsibility. Although the candidate is scientifically credible and warrants evaluation, SBA assigns 0 kg accepted oxygen, 0 kg accepted biomass, no avoided import, no established baseline displacement, no lifecycle-qualified contribution, and no countable infrastructure credit. Its formal evaluated claim state is Refused, with a retained experimental evidence-building role. SBA's contribution is therefore not automatic acceptance or technology rejection, but disciplined control of the boundary between plausible technologies and countable settlement infrastructure.