Innovative technologies are needed to forge the first long-term presence on the moon.
is being hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland this fall. It is a work in progress and an ongoing endeavor that functions in collaboration with NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.
Building machinery and electronics that work in extreme environments, like super-cold permanently shadowed regions that may be loaded with extractable water iceIdentifying critical technology gaps that pertain to robotic access, navigation, and exploration of the lunar surface and subsurface, especially previously inaccessible regions and assessing the readiness of systems and components Ben Bussey is an APL planetary scientist who is leading the team supporting the NASA Space Technology...
"The infrastructure associated with McMurdo enables scientific exploration for the entire Antarctic plateau … something that would happen a lot less if each individual expedition had to fly everything in and out of New Zealand or South America. Similarly, I hope the lunar base camp will allow exploration of the entire moon," Bussey added.
Especially when getting into 3D printing of regolith or the sintering and extruding of simulated materials, knowing the melting temperature by well-matched, fine-tuned simulants is hugely important, Klima pointed out. Just using any off-the-shelf simulant to study how equipment and processes react on the moon is not prudent, she said.
While he admits that water ice on the moon draws a lot of attention, that's not the number one resource at the lunar south pole — that would be sunlight. There are hill tops in that south pole region that are nearly continuously bathed in sunlight for around 250 days out of the year, a situation ideal for the emplacement of a cluster of solar panels for power generation.A visualization of Shackleton crater.
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