October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... potential in terms of useful power, first on the Moon and later on other planets. Design concept for a future lunar base. About the authors Vyacheslav A Bobin is a Chief Researcher at the Academician N Melnikov Institute of Mineral Wealth Integrated...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
...cannot be exclusive nor perpetual, that is, no country can declare any region of space as property. Therefore, any lunar base that is constructed must allow free access to all countries regardless of contribution to its construction. In light of this...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... of how we can sustainably live together in a multi-cultural society led to a number of interesting and fresh ideas for lunar base typologies. Sundial Explorer In terms of how we, and especially how young people, want to live in the future, both...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... the Chinese goddess Chang’e, has three steps - a robotic programme, a human spaceflight programme and the establishment of lunar bases. The impetus for this began in the 1960s, when Chinese geologist Ouyang Ziyuan saw what America...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... be met cost effectively will be through reusable launch vehicles. A concept for constructing a lunar base using automated 3D printers, making use of lunar regolith as building material. SpaceX recently succeeded in the Falcon-9 launch of astronauts...
February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... license holder would bid in this auction, perhaps receiving a 10 percent discount relative to the highest bid. A future lunar base. Avoiding coercion There are plans to create LDCs at experimental space habitats in various locations The LDC would...
