During Fall and Winter quarters, Georgia Tech's School of Mechanical Engineering students designed machines and devices related to Lunar Base construction tasks. These include joint projects with Textile Engineering students. Topics studied included lunar environment simulator via drop tower technology, lunar rated fasteners, lunar habitat shelter, design of a lunar surface trenching machine, lunar support system, lunar worksite illumination (daytime), lunar regolith bagging system, sunlight diffusing tent for lunar worksite, service apparatus for lunar launch vehicles, lunar communication/power cables and teleoperated deployment machine, lunar regolith bag collection and emplacement device, soil stabilization mat for lunar launch/landing site, lunar rated fastening systems for robotic implementation, lunar surface cable/conduit and automated deployment system, lunar regolith bagging system, and lunar rated fasteners and fastening systems. A special topics team of five Spring quarter students designed and constructed a remotely controlled crane implement for the SKITTER model.
Lunar Surface Vehicle Model Competition
1990
2 pages
Report
No indication
English
Extraterrestrial Exploration , Environment simulators , Habitats , Lunar bases , Lunar shelters , Lunar surface vehicles , Competition , Lunar environment , Lunar surface , Students , Support systems , Construction , Cranes , Daytime , Deployment , Drop towers , Fasteners , Launch vehicles , Lunar launch , Lunar rocks , Mechanical engineering , Schools , Sunlight , Textiles
Lunar surface vehicle model competition
NTRS | 1990
Online Contents | 1993
'LUNAR BASE' COMPETITION WINNERS
Online Contents | 1993