moon_camp

Moon Camp Explorers Gallery 2019-2020

In Moon Camp Explorers each team’s mission is to 3D design a complete Moon Camp using Tinkercad. They also have to explain how they will use local resources, protect astronauts from the dangerous of space and describe the living and working facilities.

Team: Moon Miners

St. Peter’s School  Barcelona    Spain

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Project description

The camp has 8 rooms, it has a green house which can produce food for the astronauts and generate oxygen. It has a place where astronauts can eat and work. It has two escape launchers in case of an emergency and an underground bunker in case of asteroid collision. It extracts oxygen from the soil that can be used to refuel rockets and as breathing oxygen. It mainly uses solar panels as energy supply. There is a water tank which sucks water from the lunar poles and stores it, it has a satellite antenna to communicate, and has air locks in each door. It has a radar that detects asteroids, if it does it sets an alarm. Finally it has a science lab, a gym and a waste management department where waste gets transformed into energy. Rovers will cover everything with regalith to protect from asteroid impact.

Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?

Close to the Lunar Poles

Why did you choose this location?

The base is going to be set up near the south pole because we are sure to find plenty of water and we chose specifically the south pole because it gets 6% more light than the north pole.  There are some natural resources on the Moon such as water ice, regolith (lunar soil) and sunlight.  

Water
Food
Electricity
Air

The moon rovers will find ice and then the mining machines will mine it. Finally, the ice is going to be melted and stored in H2O tanks.

Some food will be transported from earth and some will be grown on the moon in the green house.

Most will be provided with solar panels, there will be two main solar panel camps: one will give direct energy to the camp in the 13 days of sun and the other one will store energy for the 13 days of darkness. Finally, we will turn the garbage waste into energy.

Some air will be brought from Earth. Trees in the greenhouse can create oxygen and some air will be sucked from the soil.

How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Which materials would you use?

I would use titanium because it is very strong. Carbon fiber, acrylic plastic, polycarbonate would be used for transparent parts, and kevlar because it is very light, it is very strong and can resist extremely high temperatures. All materials would be combined with regolith (lunar soil) except the polycarbonate and acrylic plastic. Some materials are going to be brought from earth and some will be found locally. They are very light materials so lots of them can be brought from Earth. If a part breaks, we can 3D print the broken part with regolith.

The Moon environment is very dangerous for the astronauts. Explain how your Moon Camp will protect them.

The transparent parts of the base have various lends to protect the astronauts from ultraviolet waves and they will be equipped with buggies while working outdoors. Also, there is a radar that detects asteroids and when it does, an alarm goes off and the astronauts can go to the underground bunker.

Describe a day on the Moon for one of your Moon Camp astronauts

An astronaut will wake up, go to the toilet, have a shower and walk threw various tubes to get to the centre/community area where he will eat his food and do indoor work with his colleagues. Later, he will go through other various tubes to get to the garage where he will be equipped with a specific space suit and a buggy to move faster around the moon area. A lunar rover will guide and help the crew to orient themselves and find underground ice. Then, they will go back to the community area to have lunch. Later, they will start their exercise in the gym and do daily work out. After that they will have dinner and finally go to bed.


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