Lunar Base Habitat Design for Extended Manned Lunar Missions
- Paper number
IAC-07-D3.3.04
- Author
Mr. Sanket Nayak, India
- Year
2007
- Abstract
An approach to create a single entity catering to the needs of astro/cosmo nauts after landing on Lunar surface As, NASA plans to return to the moon by 2020, there is an utter need to set-up an infrastructural facility for the astro/cosmo nauts who will be heading for these extended manned lunar missions. The abstract deals with the design of a full-fledged Lunar Base Habitat Design.
The entire construction can be categorized into Phase I is preparatory exploration, phase II research outpost,phase III operational base, phase IV advanced base.The design consists of Habitation/Research/Laboratory modules. Interconnected by means of interfacing units.The staircases leading to the interfacing units are provided with air-locking systemsThese staircases are collapsable and the docking-berth can be docked on to the CEV/Manned Rovers.This structure is mobile and when static functionality is required,can be anchored on to the lunar regolith by means of a anchorage system. This enables the habitat to have mobility and the scope of docking itself to the CEV wherever it lands.
All the habitation modules have greenhouses and radiation shielding.The service core is enabled with both vertical and horizontal transport systems.The energy required is extracted by means of solar arrays.The incident solar insolation is made to fall on a solar mirror at an angle of 45 degrees and subsequently reflected on multiple mirrors and a reflector in the service core,which redistributes the light onto a series of solar arrays and the horticulture thereby solving the purpose of both electrical energy generation and the required light stimulus for the horticulture.The habitat would be equipped with extra-terrestrial inter-planetary high speed data transfer communication system to enable high bandwidth for earth station instructions.
- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
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