TY - GEN
T1 - Lunar Lava Tubes for Segmented Base Architecture on the Moon
AU - Pedersen, Claire L.
AU - Antonic, Aleksandar
AU - Alqaraghuli, Farah M.
AU - Mayes, Riley E.
AU - Thangavelautham, Jekan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The Moon offers new resources and ease of accessibility, with its subsurface lava tubes that can provide appropriate shelter for new infrastructure. Their unique attributes make lava tubes an ideal place to house hardened shelters and refuges that would be accessed from the surface and utilized in case of any emergency. Further, the lunar lava tubes could be a repository for data that would otherwise be under threat on Earth. Utilizing a lava tube, a base could be segmented with some portions being accessible to the surface, while others are shielded by 100 m of regolith. This paper will analyze the unique contributions made possible by lunar lava tubes for lunar support facilities. Throughout this study, three lava tube structural concepts will be analyzed: a Lunar Computing and Data Center, an Astronaut Refuge and Warehouse, and a Lunar Command Center.
AB - The Moon offers new resources and ease of accessibility, with its subsurface lava tubes that can provide appropriate shelter for new infrastructure. Their unique attributes make lava tubes an ideal place to house hardened shelters and refuges that would be accessed from the surface and utilized in case of any emergency. Further, the lunar lava tubes could be a repository for data that would otherwise be under threat on Earth. Utilizing a lava tube, a base could be segmented with some portions being accessible to the surface, while others are shielded by 100 m of regolith. This paper will analyze the unique contributions made possible by lunar lava tubes for lunar support facilities. Throughout this study, three lava tube structural concepts will be analyzed: a Lunar Computing and Data Center, an Astronaut Refuge and Warehouse, and a Lunar Command Center.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784485736.060
DO - 10.1061/9780784485736.060
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85207905678
T3 - Earth and Space 2024: Engineering for Extreme Environments - Proceedings of the 19th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments
SP - 663
EP - 675
BT - Earth and Space 2024
A2 - Malla, Ramesh B.
A2 - Littell, Justin D.
A2 - Krishnan, Sudarshan
A2 - Rhode-Barbarigos, Landolf
A2 - Pradhananga, Nipesh
A2 - Lee, Seung Jae
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - 19th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments, Earth and Space 2024
Y2 - 15 April 2024 through 18 April 2024
ER -