Chiara Sevi
Regolith Collector Payload for a Lunar Rover.
Rel. Marcello Chiaberge, Andrea Merlo. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Mechatronic Engineering, 2024
Abstract
In order to make the future stay of astronauts on the lunar surface more sustainable, it will be necessary to produce the resources needed to supply them locally, thus not having to supply them from Earth. To this end, various agencies globally are coordinating to develop technologies for harvesting and processing lunar resources. In particular, regolith can be the raw material from which to obtain oxygen, water and carbon dioxide. The first necessity in the ISRU process chain (besides of course the study and search for the raw material, which in the case of regolith is found virtually everywhere on the Moon) is the harvesting of the regolith itself.
This implies large-scale extraction scenarios, with automated vehicles closing a cycle of extraction, transport, and recharging in a repetitive manner
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