How do you get started on a technical design?
==Lunarpedia as a Technical Design==
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...facturing program and working out bugs. Requirements for adjustment of the design would be communicated back to Earth.
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...the first people on Luna. bye Leave a message here if yu want to talk hab design!! Allen Meece in Key West
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[[Lunar-Appropriate Industrial Design]]<BR/>
[[MUS cle Design Projects]]<BR/>
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...s the original [[Faster, Cheaper, Better]] style mission. From conceptual design to launch was only 22 months.
Working with the BMDO was the [[Naval Research Laboratory]] (spacecraft design, construction, and mission integration) and the [[Lawrence Livermore Nation
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All specifications for electrical systems, equipment, and design should be in this category or one of its subcategories.
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...ther" satellite for communication with ground controllers. The [[CubeSat]] design is an example of a picosatellite.
...chnic State University and Stanford University, who introduced the CubeSat design, estimate CubeSats can be made and launched to LEO for US$65,000–80,000 e
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This idea could serve as the basis of a good student project on Earth. Design of the cabinets would not be too difficult or expensive. The students coul
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...strial that will make or break the first lunar settlement. Getting a good design for it is essential. This is one task that must be done by universities an
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* [[Proton rocket]], Russian unmanned space vehicle design
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...a successful operational orbital launch vehicle made in Ukraine by Yuzhnoe Design Bureau and oeprated by [[Sea Launch LLC]].
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One of the most striking innovations in this MLO design is the use of tents over the modules to provide thermal, micrometeorite, an
==Design Problems==
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A [[wet workshop]] design was considered for the [[Skylab]] space station. A single S-IVB stage from
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...s originally developed by Isaac Newton, and it was the earliest successful design for a reflector telescope.
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Except for fresnel lenses which are great for [[solar welding]], the design involves using mirrors coated with [[aluminum]] to reflect the sunlight to
...erials slightly thicker than foil is fully workable. The advantage of this design is that it has both a single focus point and single point of angle adjustme
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This international organization coordinates Radio Amateurs as volunteers to design and build the [[OSCAR]] series of radio ham satellites (OSCAR = Orbital Sat
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...ational [[Amsat]] organization coordinates Radio Amateurs as volunteers to design and build the [[OSCAR]] series of radio ham satellites.
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This process is being developed as a Open Design effort. Input from anyone interested will be appreciated.
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This design could use a good rework for a polar location. The design of the thermal panels is also very weak. This would make a good student pr
The whole sandworm design concept may be unworkable, but the article should not be romoved without di
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...It also vastly simplifies your power storage for nighttime as well as the design of anything you want to stay pointed at the sun.
==Design considerations==
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This process is being developed as a Open Design effort. Input from anyone interested will be appreciated.
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*[[Design a Moon Sport Contest]] -- see [http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/mmm_classic
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Last summer I worked with a team of high school students. We design a industrail park near the Moon's south pole. It was calle the Mount Malap
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This design note develops ideas for the design of a lunar Helium-3 mining machine as described in [[Harrison Schmitt]]'s (
...em are cooling and access for maintenance. A detailed description of this design can be found at:
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...But on Earth, lower frequencies are used in domestic situations, and good design can eliminate any detectable hum.
...rg/wiki/Electromagnetic_Compatibility Electromagnetic Compatibility]</ref> Design to reduce the amount of [[RF leakage]] and/or reduce the amount of coupling
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; Technical articles ; Providing technical information needed for the design of a lunar settlement. Example: [[Ore_Bodies ]]
; Design of Lunar Volatiles Harvester ; Setting up the design of an industrial machine for recovering lunar volatiles for student project
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<font size=4> -- Design your own Moon base with the latest NASA data </font>
...data. It is called [http://woodwaredesigns.com/sky/Malapert/Malapert.html Design your own Moon base with the latest NASA data]. This step-by-step procedure
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===Clean Sheet Design===
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To modify the typical Mars Rover design as of this date to make it possible to fit a space suit around it, substitu
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All design work will be done directly in SI and will not be done under other systems a
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...loping two separate gas gathering devices (two, in the faint case that one design doesn't pan out, but also for gathering different gas concentrations at dif
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*Technical discussions on vehicle and habitat design
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...meant in practice that when a mechanical engineer saw something risky in a design produced by, say, electrical engineers, he or she was required to drop ever
...rol, materials, process procedures, manufacturing orders, and authority to design and produce any tooling needed and to provide the production facilities if
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...s possible and yet provide the necessary protections. This is a straw man design and I hope other people will provide alternatives.
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...h other to build their own inflatable or sectional habitats in a series of design possibilities.
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...SA people do their work, but there are a number of problems in the current design which limit its usefulness. Suggestions to address all of the known proble
...several illustrations. Most of the accepted challenges have been for the design of specific technical devices but a few have been for higher level problems
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...illiant people do work in related fields of manufacturing, engineering and design No company could afford to research what we have from getting these amazing
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...[moonquake|moonquakes]], and dust control will all play large parts in the design of lunar structures. Due to this, a large number of architectural designs h
== Major Design Criteria ==
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...proposed lander for the mission. Five proposals were made for the lander design, while three were chosen for further development:
SpaceX proposes a variant of their Starship design, without the Earth return features and adapted for landing on the moon. Th
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[[Lunar-Appropriate Industrial Design]]<BR/>
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* [[Volatiles Harvester Spec]] -- Let's organize a design contest for a Lunar Volatiles Harvester.
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...of more conventional magnetoplasma or ion engines. An aspect of the engine design that affords a capability to achieve both high and variable specific impuls
The design of the VASIMR is so original that a prototype is being developed in collabo
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By September 15, 1941, Thiel officially declared the basic eighteen-pot design of the A-4 motor finished. He had begun investigating nitric acid and diese
In August 1943, Dr. Thiel reported that the A-4 design could not be mass produced and recommended that the project be cancelled. H
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A wet workshop design was considered for the [[Skylab]] space station. A single S-IVB stage from
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...the RepRap project has progressed through multiple generations of hardware design, improvement, and hybridization.
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It is very easy to design a free flying spacecraft to point
and do not have the complex models needed to design reliable
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==Design Issues==
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===Design contests===
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This report analyses a new approach to the design of [[Solar Power Satellites]] ("SPS"), intended to make the initial investm
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...e for Open Design''' -- This is a lengthy study of how people do technical design and the case for reworking NASA@work into a Wiki format. Through suggestio
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...es a detailed explanation of what a successful LVH must do. If a proposed design achieves all the requirements in this document it can be described as 100%
This document can also be used to judge which of various design options are superior. This makes the document useful for supporting studen
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More recently, as a Senior Project Engineer, he directed the design and fabrication of the astronaut neutral buoyancy trainers for the Internat
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<font size=5> Details of the Sandworm Design </font>
...s described in [[Sandworms]]. This article continues with details of that design. A supporting spread sheet is also available at [[Story Calculations]].
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...ents in view of new information and new concepts. This is a start of that design effort.
...rt at the top. Our relationship to our machines is at the very top of any design involving man in space.
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===Institute of Lunar-Appropriate industrial design===
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...g. The latter losses could be reduced to acceptable levels through careful design of the distillation equipment.
...ul in circumstances where the sponge itself is the desired product. Proper design of the process should allow for sufficient salt removal.
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===Institute of Lunar-apropriate Industrial Design===
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...ndustrial mechanisms that are at the foundation of all processes. We must design lunar versions of these mechanisms if we are to build a successful settleme
The factors making machine design difficult in the lunar environment include:
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...on, model-based engineering, rollover accident reconstruction, MEMS device design and operation, and systems studies of space operations.
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...nsit and on the Moon. It must be detailed enough to allow our engineers to design appropriate radiation shielding from the information. --[[User:Anders Feder
::::Space Mission Analysis and Design (Third Edition) (Softback) [James R. Wertz and Wiley J. Larson, eds. - 1999
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...eased quality of insulation would need to be taken into account in a lunar design. The same vacuum is also a great advantage. The big clouds of smoke follo
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...data. It is called [http://woodwaredesigns.com/sky/Malapert/Malapert.html Design your own Moon base with the latest NASA data]. This step-by-step [[Student
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...section to loose fluid while the rest of the radiator remains intact. The design should allow a leaking section to be isolated and pumped dry. The location
The above design concept for a radiator shield is best suited for buildings. For a rover tha
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=== [[Technical Design]] ===
Contracting to provide technical services, such as engineering design. This idea is viable because some of the most experienced specialists avai
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Dust control will be an important design requirement for the architecture of any lunar structure. Dust must be cont
...long term heath effects of breathing dust will be studied in detail. The design of permenant living facilities will be strongly affected by the results of
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...unar Reclamation Society entered a National Space Society large settlement design contest with an entry called "Prinzton" built into the walls of Rima Prinz
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...tationary facility power storage. For higher power densities people would design larger diameter flywheel rims. There is the added complication of designin
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==Mass driver design==
If the design of any obit circularization rocket results in dust ejected from the rocket
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Generating buy in is dependent on having a clear, top level design that will generate a vision of success in the listeners. Those grand ideas
...Public support for the idea is now disappointingly low. If our top level design does not meet true needs of today, it will not generate buy-in and it will
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...vements he had made on the rocket vehicle. I used his electrical harness design modifications for electrical connectors on all future engines.
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...ike to see here is a detailed requirements specification and/or a detailed design document. that will address your valid concerns that "we need to get it ri
==Software Design Specification==
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...sis. I work in a Data Center. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center) I design the procedures of quality control. Event though I do not participate direct
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...can be improved in efficiency by careful choice of electrode material and design. Also, performing electrolysis on water at very high temperatures results i
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...nsolata''', which has two FOSS fonts and was used on our 2013-2018 website design (Coriolis).
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It is probably too late for design changes in the ISS, but avoiding rotary joints with electrically conducting
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...span-nightspan temperature swings are a challenge to vehicle and structure design, as well as to lubricants
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Strangelv says, "Mike ponders a throwaway rover design as a followup to the microwave project"
...n't think a mere garage would be big enough once it got beyond the initial design stage."
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...s means that the lunar landers must carry additional fuel. The new lander design has large fuel tanks for this reason. Also there will be fewer and more li
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...pment would require expensive launch on rockets to orbit, but the cost of design and fabrication for things launched into orbit is usually a number of times
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This suggests an X-Prize rover design as a sandworm. The rover would be snake like, at least as big around as yo
...gn will be very challenging work in robotics. The major concerns for this design are managing the Lilly pad tail and digging deep enough as the regolith get
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[[File:externalspacesuit.jpg|right|thumb|NASA's New Moon Rover Design]]
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...A completely indoor operation of the aircraft would simplify a number of design considerations for the blimp itself.
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...like California. The risk is there and we must take it into account in the design of the settlement, but it is '''not''' one of our [[Show Stoppers]]. In fac
...ent on the moon again is real and must be addressed in both infrastructure design and operational procedures. It is comparable to the risk of storm damage on
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...sion Designs and Options]] -- not presently existing reference missions to design<BR/>
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The new Lunar Lander design carries much larger fuel tanks than [[Apollo]]. This gives it both the cap
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...ommon/Main Materials Used to Handle Fluorine'''<ref>(P. S. Gakle, et al., "Design Handbook for Liquid Fluorine Ground Handling Equipment, Aerojet-General Cor
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*Sea Dragon was an interesting design that might have been the cheapest way to launch very large payloads, but it
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...happens perhaps someone on the Moon Society will do it before me. To even design the simulations it would be necessary more models than the ones that David
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...Cape. The project was led by Project Engineer, Hugh King, of the PV&E Lab Design Engineering Section.
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...These early missions will test the technologies and capabilities needed to design manned landers. "NASA will look at a number of factors including technical
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...will never be the primitive five person habitat pictured. Features of the design could be included in some of the modules built for an eventual human colony
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====Design contests====
...span-nightspan temperature swings are a challenge to vehicle and structure design, as well as to lubricants
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...open to out-of-box thinking. This entry is part of a new lunar settlement design and is a discussion of how the concept of symbiosis applies to our vision o
We need to design a new direction for lunar settlement. To do this we must learn to think ou
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...ers.edu/~benaroya/publications/Ruess%20et%20al%20ASCE%20JAE.pdf Structural Design of a Lunar Habitat - Journal of Aerospace Engineering, July 2006, pg 137] .
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:*Select design objectives
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...provide all our shielding, see [[Architecture List]]. Any lunar settlement design that does not address the radiation problem should simply be rejected as un
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...ume; mass production of such water mining craft would amortize the initial design investment and tooling over hundreds of trips.
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*Kroll, Gustav A. - Group(4) MSFC R-P&VE-S Structures Design 4610
*Milde, Hans W. - Group(4) MSFC R-ASTR-GDA Design Section 4487
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The Activity zones are a specific design concept used for space settlement design that I am suggesting for use as a judgment criteria for the various sites.
...and beaming it to Earth or elsewhere in space." This robot is in the arly design phase and would manufacture and lay the cells using the same unit. A sligh
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