===Building & Manufacturing Materials===
===Building & Manufacturing materials===
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...Construction Materials | construction]] and structural materials, and raw materials for other production useful for habitat expansion.
...ned from asteroids, oxygen, aluminum and titanium from the moon, and other materials for manufacture of structures in space such as [[solar power satellites]].
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==Materials==
RepRap can currently use the following materials:
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Beneficiation refers to processes which concentrate desired materials out of collected ore. In a lunar context, the ore proposed is most commonly
...ick to the drum and are scraped off the other side, while the non-magnetic materials fall straight down.
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Making [[insulators]] from Lunar materials requires a different technology. On Earth wires typically are made of layer
Since organic materials are in short supply on the Moon, then what are the alternatives. How can ''
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...ts the first source of electric heating for sintering, casting and melting materials. Because, resistor based apparels heat in all directions, thermal energy is
Note: Several non-ionic materials (can not be heated by microwaves) would be sintered in a resistor based mac
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...vely people could do as Gerard K. O'Neill suggested and mine Luna and ship materials to geosynchronous Earth orbit for construction of space-based solar power p
...is the problem Mike mentioned of orbital debris from a scheme to send raw materials to [[GFDL:Lagrangian point|L2]]. Also L2 moves with relation to the solid
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...evement on the Moon even if it means upporting expensive furnaces and mold materials. Investment casting also called “lost wax” casting of titanium is done
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...With only 90 miles of cable necessary to get to outer space, super strong materials would not be needed. Ordinary carbon fiber reinforced plastic would do. A
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...tu Resource Utilization List of ISRU possible on the moon: ==Construction Materials== *Cast B... -->
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...s of chemical reactions intended to produce [[oxygen]] (and possibly other materials) by the [[reduction]] of [[Lunar Regolith | lunar regolith]]. It is a form
...the fluoride reaction sequence could be a method by which processing lunar materials could be done to produce [[silicon]] as well as [[iron]], [[aluminum]], and
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...the lack of wind and lower [[gravity]] of the moon, less than a tenth of [[materials]] are required to make similar size furnace compared to earth.
...ter is how big your mounting platform can handle in terms of weight. Using materials slightly thicker than foil is fully workable. The advantage of this design
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...ire set of interactions between animals, plants, and microbes recycles the materials necessary to life. It enclosed more than 3 acres.<ref>[http://www.b2scienc
...oon is not that of complete material closure, but getting by with only the materials that can be generated by industry from dirt and rocks of the moon. Success
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...om Cornell University, and has worked as a researcher in the properties of materials at Indiana University, Argonne National Lab, and the University of Washingt
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...ifficulties in establishing industrial facilities to take advantage of the materials on the moon and the sunlight energy in free space give rise to the idea tha
...rts of goods. The producers would no longer be assured of getting the raw materials for production or spare parts for broken machines. Central factories could
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...enerate useful by-products and a prototype shop in which to hand-build the materials and tools we need.
...ree materials, ([[Sodium]], [[Potassium]], and [[Iron]]) and is 100% lunar materials.
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**[[Locally Manufactured Construction Materials]]
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From the trailer a corridor will be built as an inflatable or sectional with materials from the moon’s surface.
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...lar solids will require grinding wheels that should be produced from local materials. They need to contain a considerable proportion of grit harder than basalt
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Sintered [[regolith]] falls into the category of ceramic materials as sintering is the process most common to ceramics. When bricks are made
...moon. More will be known about the quality of bricks possible from lunar materials when the research can be done on Luna. A possibility to consider is the [[
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...rth-scarce resources (such as Helium-3 for fusion power) and providing the materials to build in space large colonizing vessels to make cyclically repeating voy
Wikiversity has learning materials about Lunar Boom Town
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...ssible? Yes and the lunar elevator = skyhook can likely be built with 2007 materials. There is lots of correct info at www.liftport.com There is also a forum wh
CNT has a theroretical strength of 1000 GPa and several other materials are almost as good. So far, the macro strength of actual ribbon has been mu
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...g innovative lighting techniques, the conversion and [[ISRU|use of in-situ materials]] as an expandable growing medium, and ensuring the survival of agricultura
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It might be possible to develop suitable flexible insulator materials by means of silicon polymer chemistry.
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...a dependable small impulse by a simple rocket that can be made from lunar materials. By guesstimation such a rocket might have an exhaust velocity of 1500 met
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With no atmosphere and a surface made up almost entirely of rocky materials with low thermal conductivity and relatively low heat capacity, during the
...2-3 K (-270 degrees C), and would likely form cold traps holding volatile materials.
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...lysis''' is one proposed method of producing [[LUNOX | oxygen]] from lunar materials. In its simplest form, the method consists of melting the lunar regolith a
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...size for mortar and filler in grades of coarser chunks for concrete. All materials must be reasonably available on Luna.
...ted time when mixing the cement. Vapor deposition occurs on Luna whenever materials with a substantial equilibrium vapor pressure are exposed to vacuum. So va
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Railroads are one of best methods of moving materials over landscapes. In the short run they are expensive to build yet over the
...will experience wear at an accelerated rate. Paving a road with dust free materials does not solve the problem because the sunlight will cause the dust to clim
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...effects of long term exposure to the harsh environment of space on various materials which could be used in future spacecraft and outposts.
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...ay to reach them is to reach their teachers. This will require structured materials and student projects that meet the teacher’s now highly defined needs. T
...well thought through and does not require a lunar settlement or even lunar materials. It is however very risky with our present state of knowledge about human
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More convential batteries that can use local materials are iron/air, aluminum/air and iron salts and water. The first two need lit
Reflectors, salts and insulating containers could all be fabricated from materials on Luna, requiring little or no supplies to be shipped from Earth.
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...a SCIBA suit on Earth could be research involving molten titanium or other materials that need to be protected from a breathable atmosphere. It may be practica
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...imes create ore bodies. The most interesting of which would be [[volatile materials]] associated with [[vents]]. The orange regolith found in Apollo-17 was th
The weakness of this plan is that the valuable materials are not concentrated. We will have to process many tons of regolith an hou
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...lternative that was a credible way of opening up the industrial use of raw materials in space for profit in some faster way.
...e to emigrate from Earth as fast as space habitats can be built from lunar materials. It may take a hundred years or more, but it will not get done if we limit
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...tting from one place all of the raw materials needed to supplement the raw materials available on Luna.
...s could be a major source of cash. Luna would get the cash from Earth for materials that go into space based solar power plants, habitats and other orbiting st
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...used as a tracer when looking for geologic concentrations of KREEP-bearing materials. The rim of Mare Imbrium is neatly traced by thorium's gamma ray emissions
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...re lava, and bluish to the northwest, caused by the excavation of highland materials in the plateau. The extent of the continuous ejecta blanket also appears as
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*[[Toxic materials]] - e.g. Hydrazine and other propellants
*[[Radioactive Materials]]
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...include faulting of the subsurface bedrock and destabilization of surface materials. Let us examine each of these in turn.
...jection were ‘lobbed’ onto the rim. When a shock waves passes through such materials, they may slide down the steep side wall, in a small landslide (Fig 5). Th
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...I Outpost|Phase I]]. It continues with the base crews using these in-situ materials to build most of the mass of the modules for the [[Phase II Settlement]] fu
...mixture by the [[Mond process]], using [[carbon monoxide]]. The remaining materials, including large amounts of [[alumina]], can be sent to the Basalt Fiber fu
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...lly. Buildings built by colonists in their own time with locally produced materials purchased on Luna from one of a number of companies and built on land assig
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...fuel can be made low enough it could make transportation from the moon for materials for building space based solar power (SBSP) stations practical. That is th
It is the large demand for materials shipped from the moon for building SBSP that makes the problems with recycl
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...pplications. Platinum, platinum alloys, and iridium are used as crucible materials for the growth of single crystals, especially oxides. The chemical industr
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...he massive low cost transportation of materials from the moon. With these materials, factories in cis-lunar space can form large well shielded spacecraft for c
...gh confidence of success. It could be that the presence of all needed raw materials in reasonable quantity on Mars could tip the scales in favor of industriali
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...a back pack containing an emergency space suit. It is made from all soft materials and folds up compactly. It can be entered quickly, but only contains enoug
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Artistic installations built on the Moon of rock, glass, ceramics, and found materials. These installations are financed by grants and may be done by Moon people
Salvage of materials abandoned on the Moon, such as decent vehicles, and managing the reuse of t
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...compressed floor materials. The terraces form due to heavy loads (the rim materials) sitting on deeply fractured ground (the fractures are from the shock wave
...the shock wave further dissipates, it is no longer able to melt the target materials, but instead only fractures the rock. This fractured rock is again pushed i
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| Advantages || no barrier to high speed travel __ allows use of structural materials incompatible with oxygen and water __ no barrier to observations __ no wind
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#[https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19800007749 Handbook of Lunar Materials] -
...lpi.usra.edu/lunar/strategies/SP509-3-Materials.pdf Space Resources: Vol 3 Materials] -
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...that on Phobos, Deimos, or Ceres, poses a problem to manufacturing. Loose materials floating more freely pose a risk to both the removal of material from the g
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...in that they are possible. I will not be surprised if improved structural materials and improved thrust to weight engines someday make SSTO vehicles practical
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...ought to wait until there is more time to provide such out of mainly lunar materials.
...as described in [[Sintered Brick Construction]]) could be built from local materials when there is time to develop some industry. A covering of about 30 centim
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...ng human trade and industry into orbit on a wave of cheaply provided lunar materials? It would require industry on the moon. It would require time, money, and
...sidered for SBSP built from Earth launched materials. Building with lunar materials requires a time lag for the building of lunar industry, but no new scienti
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...e moon has a low viscosity (it is very thin and runny). Indeed, when lava materials were melted on earth, it was shown to have the consistency of motor oil. T
...ker lava beneath it. The ejecta from this crater will include those darker materials (an example of this was Crater Shorty, which was visited by the Apollo miss
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...go from producing the iron, glass, calcium, and aluminum from crude lunar materials to making an electromagnetic mass accelerator. If we start out along the p
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...red with electrolysis, as well as requiring careful selection of apparatus materials due to the high temperature and corrosive environment. However, the sulfur
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...developed further to allow mass emigration from Earth and to deliver lunar materials to orbit for building the homes for emigrants, space habitats.
...erating on Luna to supply low cost materials in orbit or another source of materials should be available. Demonstrating the device at Luna will not guarantee s
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The following materials were critical in the development of the [[Future Work for NASA]] entry:
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...ld be built in a polar region. It would require that the vast majority of materials be locally obtained. The greenhouse would be built as a 100 meter diameter
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..., known as ''silicones'', are flexible compounds sometimes used as sealing materials.
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...been many suggestions for mass drivers on Luna for the exportation of raw materials and other purposes, notably by Gerard K. O'Neill (God rest his soul) and th
...processing. This scheme calls for the mass driver to be built from lunar materials by remote controled devices. So there will be the infrastructure for manuf
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...ose heat to the lunar surface directly by conduction. They can be made of materials resistant to cold temperatures. Little heat will be lost through six long
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...months must be discovered. Replacing worn out machines with mostly lunar materials will require some minimum lifetime for the production equipment. If remedi
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...e for many millions of years. When [[comet]]s hit the moon, the [[volatile materials]] form an extremely thin [[lunar atmosphere]]. During the day, these partic
...These include: [[hydrogen]], [[water]], [[iron]], and [[titanium]]. These materials will greatly reduce the cost of operations in space.
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...to be necessary. A centrifuge can be constructed on the Moon out of lunar materials to provide for the health of personnel that maintain the base.
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...model is in how it can organize data to predict new useful and interesting materials and devices.
...it apparatus should be made with exactly the same dimensions but different materials. If the material of the apparatus in no way affects the intensity, shape o
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mills and extruders with lunar materials rather than ship
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...including budgeting, development, mock-ups, testing, some design control, materials, process procedures, manufacturing orders, and authority to design and prod
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...e materials from earlier separation for use in the process. The available materials include:
Finding low-maintenance materials for this environment will also be difficult. We are dealing with tones of
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*Processing Lunar Soils for Oxygen and Other Materials. Knudsen & Gibson [http://nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol3/plsoom1.htm
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...berglass. Capital investments can include larger antennas made from lunar materials for more communications band width. Wire lines can connect the polar regio
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...="Holloman"/> The pressure vessel on Luna could be constructed from local materials, perhaps using [[Sintered Brick Construction]] methods. The electrical por
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...e, the rocket section has no father use and can be scavenged for parts and materials. It never leaves the Moon again.
...will have to be shipped from Earth and that will likely amount to tons of materials. There are probably simpler ways to shield a habitat with these levels of
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...nar [[anhydrous]] glass,<ref>Blacic, J.D., "Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Struct
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...significant problem of being really cold. If they possess usable building materials like iron dust then building a tower may be the best way of solving this pr
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...tmosphere. This adaptation should not be too challenging but a great many materials may need to be tested in realistic lunar conditions.
...need bright colored [[paint]]. The bulk of the paint must come from lunar materials. [[Titanium]] is available on Luna. [[Titanium dioxide]] is used as a whi
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...s it needs to be to support the wheel without calling for any super strong materials because the added stress from the hub's additional thickness is based upon
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...Los Alamos National Laboratory wrote about "Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Struct
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...60 concluded that use of lunar resources would be cheaper than terrestrial materials for a system comprising as few as thirty Solar Power Satellites of 10GW cap
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...bers of devices. When some of this work involves working with machines or materials that would be harmed by exposure to oxygen or moisture, a person can wear a
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The magnetic materials ([[Ilmenite]] and iron oxide) could be stored for production of [[titanium]
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....GIF|160px|left]] Sintered [[regolith]] falls into the category of ceramic materials as sintering is the process most common to ceramics. When bricks are made
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...ricants for space use. Currently very high priced space versions of these materials (for example $700.00 a pound for grease) are available.
Materials designed for the worst Earth industrial environments are becoming available
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...le to produce a space based solar power (SBSP) system for Earth from lunar materials, but the economics cause difficult constraints and the current geopolitical
==Mining the building materials==
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...until the industry in cis-lunar space has gone through a large quantity of materials, building space based solar power, space telescopes, habitats and other thi
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...be many years in the future. If the Lunar economy is based upon exporting materials to produce space based solar power plants in orbit, oxygen from [[Ilmenite
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...Lab’s Supply Branch, would handle requests for stock nuts and bolts or raw materials items. Things picked up with the launch of America’s first manned launch
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Between the temperatures of 700 C and 1400 C additional volatile materials come off including substantial amount so nitrogen, carbon monoxide, [[hydro
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...aier, NASA Glenn Research Center, pdf of report to Lunar Regolith Simulant Materials Workshop
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...rongest skill. I had great resources, I provided for myself from left over materials from other project engineers (raiding the junk yard was a weekly thing for
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...Volatiles Harvester (LVH) will process lunar regolith and capture volatile materials, such as hydrogen, by the application of heat and mechanical manipulation.
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...ce frontier artist by experimenting with "lunar paints" made entirely from materials producible from moondust. [http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/art/painting_ex
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...awa M.J., and Reid K.J. (1990) Preparation of simulants for lunar surface materials. Engineering, Construction and Operations in Space II, American Society of
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...ottom and work up. This school pays close attention to the properties of materials and new technologies. There is another school of design that says you must
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