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LUNAR BASE 10 – Self-deployable core and sintered regolith shell forming Lunar Baroque architecture principles

2010 - 2012
Team: Ondrej Doule, Emmanouil Detsis, Aliakbar Ebrahimi, Vratislav Saleny, Petr Synovec

Lunar Base 10 with an Astronomical Telescope is a novel concept of a lunar settlement composed of a number of structures placed in the vicinity of the Lunar North Pole. A detailed analysis of the lunar surface showed a number of serious drawbacks for setting up an IR liquid mirror telescope on the Lunar South Pole which is part of the LB10. The base is robotically deployed and covered with a sintered regolith on a mountain peak not farther than 0.2° latitude from the North Pole. The base deployable structures were designed as a single module payload for a heavy lift launcher that can deliver 50 tons to LEO.

The base system architecture addresses technical, environmental and cultural requirements of human settlement. LB10 is considered a permanent human settlement on the Moon with strong emphasis on architectural heritage and its evolution through identification of most important functions of the settlement. The analogy of terrestrial forts serves as a contextual base for inventing new architectural style, that may be functionally outdated on Earth but applicable on the Moon, the Lunar Baroque (concept by Dr. Doule).


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