Payload X
Project Contributor: Daniel Tompkins Working to advance sustainable lunar habitation through innovative life support systems.
Open Lunar Impact
Payload X enables our vision towards a portfolio of lunar utilities through: habitat and life support systems for lunar missions, addressing the challenges of sustaining human life on the moon.
About the Project
The research aimed to build off the low-cost lunar workshop, with the aim of undertaking a technical gap analysis for lunar settlement. Ultimately the scope focused on the core elemental requirements needed to sustain humans on the Moon, exploring the feasibility of closed loop systems in Space.
About the Need
In support of lunar exploration, the research looked to address the elemental requirements needed to sustain a human presence on the Moon indefinitely.
About the Solution
Through a current state analysis of core life systems (food production, water and air recycling) the research determined that there is a gap between these technologies in terms of being able to implement them outside of Earth, given the additional requirements needed. Overall the scope proposed separating out the design requirements for these systems from habitation units, as this would accelerate the implementation of these technologies.
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