A study prepared by the company Astrobotics Technologies together with Carnegie Mellon University researchers and funded by NASA shows that small robots can prepare landing zones on the moon for NASA stations
Astrobotics Technologies and researchers Carnegie Mellon University Analyzed mission requirements and succeeded in developing a revolutionary robot for NASA's Surface Group.
NASA is facing a challenge: to design an array of outposts on the surface of the moon intended to begin their operations in 2020. In order to optimize the array of cargo transfer to the moon and its outposts, the landing site should be near the manned outposts and laboratories. But every landing and takeoff causes the lunar sand to fly away after the landing, and since the moon has no atmosphere and its gravity is weaker, the sand can endanger the manned station.
The researchers analyzed two possible solutions to the said problem: building a border around the landing area or building a hard area from local materials that will be used as a landing area free of light materials.
The analysis of the first solution led the researchers to the conclusion that two rovers weighing about 120 kg each would be able to build a barrier around the landing area within six months. A barrier at a height of 3 meters in a circular area with a diameter of 56 meters will prevent the drifting of the sand in the different directions, its construction will require moving 970 tons of lunar soil. NASA could send these robots towards the poles a few months before the manned mission, Astrobotics Technologies proposed that the ground preparation work be done by a commercial company.
In the second solution, the researchers showed how small robots could collect lunar rocks and arrange them in a structure that would create a sand-free landing zone. The solution may remove the need to create a barrier since the landing area will consist of hard materials. In order to decide on the preferred solution, the initial robotic tasks must collect information about the landing site, the composition of the soil there, the amount of rocks in the area, the size of the rocks and other geological information.
As mentioned, the company works in the fusion of Carnegie Mellon University researchers in charge of the development of the lunar robot, the initial robot has undergone a series of continuous field tests in recent months.
At the same time, the company's first task is to win $20 million in a competition Google Lunar X prize, the award is given to the first company to land in the Apollo 11 landing zone and transmit high-quality video. The company plans to carry out the task in December 2010.
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Views,
This last response is appropriate and correct.
For Rolando:
It is said about this - "If you can't love the one you want, love the one you can".
With the technology that exists and is at our disposal, we will be forced to base ourselves in the neighborhood closest to us for a long time to come. Although there is nothing wrong with that and there is room for interesting research, but we have already been there and there is room for robotics and nothing more.
Just so you understand - 7 months to reach Mars!
With limited vision to a small and narrow field than the waves, with a limited mind that cannot grasp concepts such as - infinity, dark energy, speed, space time, and more, and above all the fact that man stands up to his knees in the Petri dish of the limiting and castrating, paralyzing, and plowing religion that manifests itself in the fact that astronauts Bless "Jesus Christ" and "God" as soon as they reach the space experience.
As long as the person is stuck in the sand up to his knees in the sand at the seashore he will not be able to get up and run to the water.
To the seer who does not see..
See what you mean in terms of traveling outside the solar system,
But the speeds we have today, may not be ideal but definitely relevant for an expedition to the Moon/Mars/Venus!
Venus I'm talking about robots of course not a manned expedition.
But at these distances, which are small in the neighborhood of the Earth, especially the Moon, the technology is absolutely sufficient.
There is no progress in the technological matter!
We are still stuck with rocket propulsion that brings spacecraft to a terminal velocity that is too low compared to the distances in space.
If you look up Voyager you will see that despite the many years in space and at a speed of tens of thousands of kilometers per hour, { I think - 65,000 or 80,000 per hour } still compared to our galaxy it is right here still around.
And it's really frustrating.
Waiting patiently for a breakthrough.
According to the available data, the most significant progress was made by taking one of the space shuttle's boosters {solid fuel} and mounting a payload on it.
It doesn't seem like there will be such a breakthrough, and certainly not a "shortening of travel time", at least in the next 50 years, so grab a beer or wine, go raise grandchildren and be patient.
Wow sounds cool.
I wanted to see if I remember…
And I remembered pretty much haha
Livna and Rolando:
What's easier than looking up the moon on Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
Birch,
Here is the article that talks about it:
https://www.hayadan.org.il/electricity-from-sky-030808/
splendor
Are you talking about the electricity from the solar panels on the moon?
You say to send the electricity through a beam, I didn't understand, how can you send electricity through a beam?
The way.. as it was presented again.. in the 70s... is to send the energy with the help of a focused microwave beam.. and if there is a need for refraction in the beam.. (like for example in a situation where the earth rotates..) then link satellites (routers) will route the beam further..
It's the same one all the time - I've seen it in other articles haha
And if I'm not mistaken, the distance is approximately 380000 kilometers, and the moon moves away by 3 centimeters every year.
Something like this - if someone can correct me that would be great.
I meant Ron in the 14th comment.
Ron
I asked at first if he was serious.
Tell me, does anyone here know the distance from the earth to the moon.
It turns out that there is another Ron here..so from now on I'm Rolando - first time I responded here
Sometimes I have a picture in my head of 2300, hoping that we will have colonies on the moon and Mars, meaning civilian colonies.
The optimistic fantasy is that we will be able to make a landing date on Mars that will cause the atmosphere to thicken and fill it with oxygen, which will also warm it up a bit, and it will also be possible to breathe regularly outside.
As for the problem of gravity in other stars, I have no idea what they will find.
The problem is that by 2070 at the latest, I won't be here anymore.
Sucks the most.
I guess he wasn't serious,
But solar energy is something that is really worthwhile in a colony on the moon.
Rafi
Say did you really offer what you offered???
You can't connect cables from the moon to the earth, they have to go through the atmosphere not to mention the length of more than a hundred km, maybe more, I don't know. Besides, you thought about the rotation of the earth on its axis and the rotation of the moon around the earth, the cables are just… well You can imagine it.
I was also always annoyed and frustrated by the part where they had already reached the moon and everything, but somehow it takes decades to repeat the same achievements in addition to additional achievements.
It's annoying because progress is slow and everyone wants to see as much development as possible in the field.
And we've gotten used to development at a crazy pace in terms of computing, so it always seems strange that it's not only not happening, but a kind of attempt to repeat old achievements.
Of course you can try to explain but somehow it won't justify 40 years difference.
In my (humble) opinion, there is another realistic solution and that is to place the landing site far enough away from the lunar outposts, far enough so that the dust does not reach the outpost, and to transport the cargo from the landing site to the outpost using a photo-electric lunar vehicle. This seems to me to be a simpler and more feasible idea than the ideas detailed in the article.
* The spoon
Well, I guess they know what they are doing, at least within their budget (which I understand was increased by Obama)
I simply realized that helium 3 is a substance that can give us energy resources for the whole world that will last for 500 years... In my opinion it is something worth taking advantage of..
Personally, philosophically, I may be a little ahead of my time from a technological-political point of view, but my opinion is that it does not make sense that there is such a huge universe and we are only supposed to stay on Earth..
In my opinion, the route is caves-wooden houses-stone houses-to be able to travel on water-to be able to travel in the air-to be able to leave the earth-to be able to land on other stars (the moon)-and the next required step is to start their settlement/research/exploitation to solve problems here.
By the way, unrelated, do you know when "Kepler" will start giving results in the hope that the launch will be successful and everything will work?
At the moment I have no idea about aliens just like I have no idea who will win the Champions League - there is not enough data at the moment except for statistical hypotheses...
But Kepler can tip the hat about the existence of alien bacteria.
Minor, but there is a huge difference between a theoretical idea and an actual implementation, remember that in space technology you need 100% success and zero failures... and in the seventies we visited the moon, we did not establish any permanent colony...
And there is no point in moving people and robots who will build the center if you don't know exactly what and who wants to build and how it will work.
Yes, I understand what you are saying.
But the handling of the issue is as if they landed on the moon, and since then the issue has been silenced.
And now we start from 0.
They really don't have the theoretical knowledge of building a spacecraft that will start transporting people/robots that will start building this center?
Water, I saw that you can produce moon dust, oxygen, I'm not a genius, but it's possible simply with plants, isn't it?
solar energy.
Feasibility - Helium 3, prevention of population explosion, global pride.
Does it really take 15 (it was announced in 2004-2005) to reach the initial date of 2020?
It is clear that it will be postponed for a few years?
The entire moon must be covered with solar panels that will transmit electricity to Earth through cables.
The technology of the 70s was unimaginably expensive for its time, and much of the investment was to give the Soviet Union a big three-finger. Besides, the technology of that time is not used today, you will find working spacecraft processors from the 70s (except in shuttles)
And to the point - you have more advanced technology today, it is desirable and worthwhile to use it... there is no need to bring humans there to prepare the ground for the other humans to come... you lose the whole point that way
But 40 years have passed...no progress has been made on the subject?
After all, NASA's approach is an approach that should have been done immediately after landing on the moon!
Not now, suddenly, 40 years later, to start from 0 - it doesn't make sense that this is their situation
are you mad???????
In 2010 they will fly to the moon if the technology of the seventies??????
What will they spend all the money flowing into space exploration on in such a difficult economic period????
I still don't understand why it is necessary to "wait" apparently until 2020 - an initial date for the launch of the manned mission?
After all, they already sent in the 70s, can't you just use the same technology to put in building materials + robots or something like that and start building now?
What is the point of all this story?