The researchers explained that the Artemis program promotes sustainable development of human life on the lunar
The research team proposes to establishinflatable greenhouse structures that connect with each other to form a village. Mirrors will be installed on each house to provide sunlight. Pneumocell, an Austrian company that develops inflatable structures, presented the idea at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Open Space Innovation Platform.
It was called PneumoPlanet, it includeslunar habitat project at two sites located at the south and north poles of the moon. “These locations have optimal lighting conditions and are in proximity to permanent shaded areas (PSRs) that are highly likely to contain surface water ice,” they note.
Lunar village project
A key requirement in building a lunarhabitat is that the material should be light as it will be transported from the earth. And after they reach the lunar surface, they should be easy to assemble, and the structure itself should have a sealed airlock.
PneumoPlanet will be transported to the Moon as prefabricated structures and then inflated. When they are fully inflated, they need to be covered with runic regolith, about 5 m thick, for insulation.
The structures themselves are 22 m wide, they are connectedwith each other through a system of tunnels, where new modules can be attached as the habitat grows. The minimum number is 16. The rotating mirrors will follow the movement of the Sun across the sky, so there will be no shortage of warmth.
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