During the summers of 2004, and 2005, several studies were conducted in the Future Concepts Office at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) with assistance from summer faculty and student program participants to develop concepts and architectures for mobile lunar habitats. This work included conceptual designs for a launch architecture derived from existing expendable launch systems; a lunar walker based on existing technology for the robotics; compatible hardware from the International Space Station (ISS) program for pressurized modules; and lunar resources utilization for environmental shielding. This paper provides a brief summary of some of the key findings from these studies, and identifies areas for future work that could lead to more robust lunar exploration architectures in the future. In conclusion, it is recommended that future exploration missions consider reusable depot / transfer vehicles, robotic walking technology for lunar exploration, and lunar resources utilization for environmental shielding of surface habitats.
Architecture for a Mobile Lunar Base Using Lunar Materials
SPACE TECH.& APPLIC.INT.FORUM-STAIF 2006: 10th Conf Thermophys Applic Microgravity; 23rd Symp Space Nucl Pwr & Propulsion; 4th Conf Human/Robotic Tech & Nat'l Vision for Space Explor.; 4th Symp Space Coloniz.; 3rd Symp on New Frontiers & Future Concepts ; 2006 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 813 , 1 ; 1022-1029
20.01.2006
8 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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