2022
watch the video documentary : https://www.youtube.com/embed/1rOLgS_StSc?feature=oembed
Lunar habitat design study funded by ESA ( European Space Agency) OSIP program .
This lunar habitat is located in the close vicinity of one of the lunar poles in places where sunlight is almost permanently available.
The habitat will operate self-sufficiently in the long term by producing and recycling its own oxygen and food inside large greenhouses and exclusively by using solar irradiation power.
The concept features the combination of:
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- Prefabricated ultra-light inflatable structures
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- Covering the inflated structure with a 4 -5 meters thick layer of local loose regolith or efficient protection from extreme temperature, meteorites and cosmic radiation.
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- The use of mirrors that rotate towards the sun and bring visible sunlight into the greenhouses
On top a hyperbolic truss frame tower holds a mirror membrane that reflects the horizontally arriving sunlight down into an artificial crater, where another cone-shaped mirror directs the sunlight into the toroidal greenhouse. The tower is based on a circular magnetic rail and rotates to follow the direction of the sun light. In order to simulate night, the mirror is simply turned away from the sun for 5-6 hours within every 24hours cycle
