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: Moonguid
Liceum Prestige Kyiv Ukraine
External link for 3d
Project description
We propose build moon camp at steps:
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Where do you want to build your Moon Camp?
2 places at the south pole (close to Shackleton crater). Why did you choose this location?
at least one – at light We used criterias from reports:
Pros and Сons:
We selected the area, then choose the exact place: flat surface for landing and ~2 degrees. Area is suitable for walking. Light+water=energy+fuel+food+air |
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Water
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Food
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Electricity
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Air
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Collect |
What – plants and insects |
According to our calculations 5000m2 of solar panels are required. We concentrate solar light by multi inflatable modules covered by mirrors forming a hyperbola. BIGELLOW already uses inflatable modules at ISS. |
Source of O2 |
How do you plan to build your Moon Camp? Which materials would you use?
We use In-Situ Moon resources. Processes are slow, so we need additional time for air, water, and energy production. At first get performance metrics comparing competitive technologies. Then solar energy farms and collect water and start producing air. First buildings we can build by ESA approach bulldozered+melding “bone” structure, we can use Fresnel lenses. We need:
For safety most rooms have two entrances |
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The Moon environment is very dangerous for the astronauts. Explain how your Moon Camp will protect them.
From meteorites: We propose to use multi-layer passive protection similar to ISS. All active protections (laser with telescope, and mechanical catapultes) are still in development. To protect electronics from radiation – special electronics for space or Bereshit approach (little bit cheaper) To protect people – ESA approach: bulldozered regolith+melding “bone” structure to reduce power consumption. Lasers that can operate at such a low temperature are still under development (MOONRISE project). So we require a preheated laser to start melting. EDEN ISS data has to be used for calculation of power consumption for low temperature protection. |
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Describe a day on the Moon for one of your Moon Camp astronauts
At ISS most of daytime astronauts spend for servicing the equipment and scientific experiments. We have enough video cameras at moon camp and a local computer power to make inventarization like in an Amazon offline shop. Also we have cold and hot corridors for equipment and heat pipes and most of the equipment doesn’t have fans, and astronauts can sleep without headphones. The most servicing activities are designed in such a way that astronauts can do it without spacesuits. They also check activity of autonomous “Axel rovers”-like robots for designing maps and new experimental robots (like motherships to carry small robots). Sure, astronauts check the plants’ state and harvest some food. Today they have fresh tomatoes for breakfasts. According to today’s plan they have to perform routine tests of fuel production stations. They prepare an expedition to the far side of the moon (building telescope). They need ms of robots (it is cheaper to make 2 simple robots then a complex redundant robot) . The Earth Team updates robots software with new functions, currently robots are able to receive updates from lunar orbiters, like Tesla cars on the Earth. And finally astronauts recheck free plant queues for melting metals for the next batches of asteroids. |