3D printing of the lunar base
Architectural firm Foster + Partners together with the European Space Agency (ESA) published a video on the construction of the lunar base.
Earlier it was reported that ESA plans to build a base using 3D printing, using local material (regolith). Now additional details of this process are published.
The aforementioned company Foster + Partners has not just published a video. Specialists of this company together with other commercial companies and ESA engineers are currently exploring the technological possibility of such 3D printing.
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Experiments on Earth showed that building in this way is quite possible. As a demonstration, a 1.5-ton building block (in the photo) was printed using a D-Wave construction printer, whose working platform is 6 meters wide.
On the moon, 3D printing uses robots of a different design. A robot similar to a bulldozer will collect regolith and deliver it to the top of the dome. Construction of one dome will take about three months.
Experts believe that the lunar base may consist of a chain of buildings that will protect astronauts from solar radiation and meteorites. In each of these buildings can live up to four people.
Shackleton crater at the south pole was chosen as a platform for the lunar base.
Earlier it was reported that ESA plans to build a base using 3D printing, using local material (regolith). Now additional details of this process are published.
The aforementioned company Foster + Partners has not just published a video. Specialists of this company together with other commercial companies and ESA engineers are currently exploring the technological possibility of such 3D printing.
')
Experiments on Earth showed that building in this way is quite possible. As a demonstration, a 1.5-ton building block (in the photo) was printed using a D-Wave construction printer, whose working platform is 6 meters wide.
On the moon, 3D printing uses robots of a different design. A robot similar to a bulldozer will collect regolith and deliver it to the top of the dome. Construction of one dome will take about three months.
Experts believe that the lunar base may consist of a chain of buildings that will protect astronauts from solar radiation and meteorites. In each of these buildings can live up to four people.
Shackleton crater at the south pole was chosen as a platform for the lunar base.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/362761/
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