From Antarctic prototype to ground test demonstrator for a lunar greenhouse
The Moon has returned into the focus of human endeavors regarding human spaceflight, e.g., with NASA's Artemis program, ESA's Moon Village, and the Russian/Chinese International Lunar Research Station. In difference to the pathfinding missions of the Apollo-era, the goal for these future m...
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ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:196682 2023-10-09T21:47:05+02:00 From Antarctic prototype to ground test demonstrator for a lunar greenhouse Maiwald, Volker Kyunghwan, Kim Vrakking, Vincent Zeidler, Conrad 2023-11 application/pdf https://elib.dlr.de/196682/ https://elib.dlr.de/196682/1/AA_Paper_EDEN%20GTD_accepted_Manuscript.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523004101?via%3Dihub en eng Elsevier https://elib.dlr.de/196682/1/AA_Paper_EDEN%20GTD_accepted_Manuscript.pdf Maiwald, Volker und Kyunghwan, Kim und Vrakking, Vincent und Zeidler, Conrad (2023) From Antarctic prototype to ground test demonstrator for a lunar greenhouse. Acta Astronautica, 212, Seiten 246-260. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.08.012 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.08.012>. ISSN 0094-5765. Systemanalyse Raumsegment Zeitschriftenbeitrag PeerReviewed 2023 ftdlr https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.08.012 2023-09-10T23:23:02Z The Moon has returned into the focus of human endeavors regarding human spaceflight, e.g., with NASA's Artemis program, ESA's Moon Village, and the Russian/Chinese International Lunar Research Station. In difference to the pathfinding missions of the Apollo-era, the goal for these future missions is to stay on the lunar surface for longer durations and inhabit the lunar environment (near-)permanently. This requires a different approach to be affordable, i.e., instead of resupply as mostly used on e.g., the International Space Station, resource management has to include recycling and in-situ utilization. The former especially calls for the application of so-called BLSS to allow providing essential life-support services to the crew without prohibitive resource consumption, which is economically not feasible to achieve with resupplies. Bio-regenerative-life-support systems have been researched for decades, yet the system complexity, technology advancements, and singular aspects as e.g., plant biology require more research, especially if combined as in a greenhouse. For instance, the understanding of how a microbiome develops in a closed environment and what implications the microbiome has on plant growth is still insufficient. Within the EDEN project, the German Aerospace Center built a lunar analogue greenhouse and operated it at the Neumayer-III research station in Antarctica for four years, testing the technology – which was not space hardware – and operations. Derived from this experience the next step in the project is to design and subsequently operate a ground test demonstrator for a lunar greenhouse, as close as possible to the actual space hardware and operations. This paper explains the current design and trade-offs that led to it. Furthermore, the concept of operations is shown to illustrate the demonstrator's utility for researching bioregenerative-life-support. Overall, the system presented is feasible and useful to close the gaps, currently still existing in this field of research, and thus a mission ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library Antarctic Neumayer Acta Astronautica 212 246 260 |
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The Moon has returned into the focus of human endeavors regarding human spaceflight, e.g., with NASA's Artemis program, ESA's Moon Village, and the Russian/Chinese International Lunar Research Station. In difference to the pathfinding missions of the Apollo-era, the goal for these future missions is to stay on the lunar surface for longer durations and inhabit the lunar environment (near-)permanently. This requires a different approach to be affordable, i.e., instead of resupply as mostly used on e.g., the International Space Station, resource management has to include recycling and in-situ utilization. The former especially calls for the application of so-called BLSS to allow providing essential life-support services to the crew without prohibitive resource consumption, which is economically not feasible to achieve with resupplies. Bio-regenerative-life-support systems have been researched for decades, yet the system complexity, technology advancements, and singular aspects as e.g., plant biology require more research, especially if combined as in a greenhouse. For instance, the understanding of how a microbiome develops in a closed environment and what implications the microbiome has on plant growth is still insufficient. Within the EDEN project, the German Aerospace Center built a lunar analogue greenhouse and operated it at the Neumayer-III research station in Antarctica for four years, testing the technology – which was not space hardware – and operations. Derived from this experience the next step in the project is to design and subsequently operate a ground test demonstrator for a lunar greenhouse, as close as possible to the actual space hardware and operations. This paper explains the current design and trade-offs that led to it. Furthermore, the concept of operations is shown to illustrate the demonstrator's utility for researching bioregenerative-life-support. Overall, the system presented is feasible and useful to close the gaps, currently still existing in this field of research, and thus a mission ... |
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https://elib.dlr.de/196682/1/AA_Paper_EDEN%20GTD_accepted_Manuscript.pdf Maiwald, Volker und Kyunghwan, Kim und Vrakking, Vincent und Zeidler, Conrad (2023) From Antarctic prototype to ground test demonstrator for a lunar greenhouse. Acta Astronautica, 212, Seiten 246-260. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.08.012 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.08.012>. ISSN 0094-5765. |
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