The first phase of the Ecate group provides the expedition of various robots/rovers (one with a 3d printer, one with a scraper to level the ground, one with a robotic arm to place the bricks printed and an excavator one) to localize a place suitable for the construction of the first structures and it will expand in time.
The second phase will include the construction of a hangar close to the site where the main base will be placed and it will be used as base before the final settlement and it will be structured in two floors, one on the surface and an underground one.
The floor on the surface will be divided in 3 areas: a communication area, a research area to analyze the moon materials and a “living zone” where the crew will relax and sleep. These areas will be divided between them by an airlock.
The underground floor will be one unique section and it will include a workshop to park and repair the rovers and also a storage area for the stocks and replace parts.
The final phase of the Ecate project provides the construction of a base composed of 4 different circular modules,linked among them by external corridors and separated through external corridors and separated by an internal airlock with a double entrance.

The chosen position is south near the crater Shackleton, since after some research it’s said that it is possible to extract H2O from the “ice from impact” coming from the asteroids and regolith from the ground for the construction of the buildings.

For the construction of the hangar it will be necessary to excavate a rectangular hole that will be used as the underground floor and later it will be shielded with metal slabs used for the walls and roof/flooring of the upper floor, the access to the underground floor will be with a hydraulic ramp situated out of the base.The superior part will have a semi-cylindrical shape similar to that of high speed tunnels, the schelton of the structure will also be in metal and later covered with various layers of regolith for a higher protection, inside will be present various configurations of walls that will form the internal rooms.
The structure of the Ecate base will consist of three layers for protection, the first one will be waterproof with air tightness, realized with a module dome of aluminium foam elements.
The second will consist of modular elements printed in 3D with a form similar to a breakwater tetrapod realized with regolith, the third is a dust regolith coating pressed with various stamps.

The first circular module will have a bedroom, the main bathroom, the showers, the laundry, the panic room and the gym plus an external airlock to go out.The second circular module will have a nursery and various research laboratories.The third circular module that links the domes 1,2 and 4 will be established as headquarters of the base and it will include a dining room, the kitchen, a secondary bathroom, the capitan office of the expedition / the office of the expedition captain?), the communication zone, an emergency power station and the control room of the base systems. The fourth module, the one with the greater diameter will be used as a greenhouse with an aquarium and also as a stocking area for ice and water.

the water needs will be satisfied First of all with the supply from the earth, secondly through the recovery of the impact ice (comets or asteroids) through pre-arranged rovers, which will collect and transport them to a storage area where through the day-night excursion will pass from the solid to the liquid state will then be analyzed and then inserted into the closed cycle of the waters of the base

The food will be coming from a huge greenhouse that will provide food for all the crew members
(the plant that will be coltivated in of our base are going to be carrots,tomatoes, red peppers, green beans, lettuce and potatoes) all of this plants will be cultivated with an hydroponic system .

The power will be produced with a large field of solar panels; solar panel will also be placed on top of the hangar and a hydrogen generator inside the green house.

The air will be controlled by an eletronic system that will keep monitoring the levels of air in the base, we will also be able to gain oxygen from the plants of the greenhouse.

The pourpouse of our base will be an economic exportation of our coltivations and mineral material comin from the lunar soil. We will also have a scientific pourpose, thanks to all loboratories (biological and geological, an astronomy center, physics and chimical

A possible day could be; after waking up and after having breakfast, the morning will be with laboratory work, then it will be lunch time and after that the crew will have their daily training in the gym. After having dinner the astronauts will be free to handle their time as they like for example; reading a book, looking at the universe from the observatory or taking a walk on the lunar ground; all of this thanks to a program with the partition of the timetables 24h on 24h.