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==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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[[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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...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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* [[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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...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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*[[Design a Moon Sport Contest]] -- see [http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/mmm_classic
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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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All design work will be done directly in SI and will not be done under other systems a
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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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...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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...[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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==Design Issues==
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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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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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...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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...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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...tenna, but is certainly an issue which needs to be addressed in the system design. The problem of radio interference is solvable.
...istance from GEO to Earth (40,000 km), so it will validate the engineering design well, and prove that useful power can be beamed over that distance.
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...tion, but the precise thickness would be determined through an engineering design study.
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...perations, and in particular the "New Vision" for space. Consider the many design changes the [[ISS into the Pacific|ISS]] when through in the 1990’s and p
...of the bellows to hold the bellows in place. It is certainly possible to design such slides so that they will nest together without taking up to much space
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I reported to Mr. Kuers to get his signature for the rocket being built to design drawings. As he was signing, he asked me to take him to the roll out. I loo
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...urrently in service || [http://www.russianspaceweb.com/zenit.html Yuzhnoe Design Bureau] (see also [http://www.sea-launch.com/ Sea Launch] ||
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...tain was home to one of, if not the leading companies in the world for the design and creation of small satellites.
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...ed from L1 to GEO to feed a terrestrial ground based rectenna. The antenna design for L-1 to Luna will work equally well from GEO to Earth
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...n the Apollo 16 and 17 samples and the Lunar-20 sample [1 pg123]. Any ISRU design will have to be able to deal with pyroxene. If we're smart, we'll figure ou
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...f aluminum oxide would form, which could be an issue for heavy use. Proper design of the engine could mitigate this however. If the combustion was complete a
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...ate in the ambient vacuum of the moon making various bearings difficult to design.
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...rted for docks with electrical winches for roll-on/roll-off operations and design for a barge to carry the oversize boosters to Cape Canaveral. We were org
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( ) Vector substitutes for non-background bitmapped design elements?
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...White’s efforts to escape made NASA redesign the hatch to a quick release design.
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The main point of this whole design is to get a very large number of Earth people from all over the world invol
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...eosho, Missouri, with aluminum alloy Domes. My new H-1 Engine Transporter design worked very good for this project. The Engines were shipped to the Cape an
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...that event that [[Alan B. Binder|Dr. Alan Binder]] came aboard to lead the design study. And the rest is History. [[Lunar Prospector]] orbited the Moon in 19
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...learned we will be able to pick lunar sites that suit our exact needs and design settlements that are safe and permanent. We will become a space fairing c
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...re of mole hill construction. Calculations of some of the factors in this design are given in the spreadsheet, MalapertCal0n.xls. The three sections are:
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...achieve. It would be a natural result of releasing a weight constraint in design and using every means possible to increase exhaust velocity.
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.... This development phase ended with the end of Apollo to the Moon and the design of the Space Shuttle. Since then there has been a steady, but not exponent
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