A study of model for regolith in-situ rover
- Paper number
IAC-21,A3,IP,52,x65022
- Author
Mr. Namsuk Cho, Korea, Republic of, Hanyang University
- Coauthor
Ms. Yebin Kim, Korea, Republic of, University of Sheffield
- Coauthor
Mr. hyun seok Yong, Korea, Republic of
- Coauthor
Mr. Dongwon Kim, Korea, Republic of
- Year
2021
- Abstract
Regolith is a material that distributed on the surface of the moon which composed of 87% of Anorthosite and 13% of Basalt with a particle size of less than 1cm. In order to colonize the Moon as the Gateway to Mars, infrastructure for space is required for extension of the area of human life activities and survival. To transfer all the infrastructure to the Moon in limited rocket is inefficient in terms of cost and a long-term perspective. Therefore, manufacturing the infrastructure using space resources is effective in perspective. For this reason, NASA held 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge to manufacture sustainable habitat and including material development for the Moon and Mars. The Moon has a large quantity of regolith as it’s covered on the surface of the Moon. With these characteristics, it is convincible to manufacture the infrastructure efficiently with appropriate cutting-edge equipment and technologies to collect the regolith and manufacturing for self-sufficient. Drilling in-situ method is studied for regolith extraction. The KLS-1 uses which is the closest to the distribution of particle size of Moon soil 14163 which satisfies the main items and performance index of replicate Moon Soil specified by the international standard artificial moon soil accredited, NASA Marsall Space Flight Center (MSFC). And the drilling method was applied to a rover with storage, delivering, and production functions that increase high applicability. It was developed and tested, and this paper will cover model of rover, specification and design of situ pipe with theoretical values from simulation and calculation. It is expected this rover could improve to add additional functions for example, the regolith brick production process with regolith in-situ.
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