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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 64850" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/3dprintinglunarbase.php" target="_blank"><strong>ESA: How To Build A Lunar Base With 3D Printing</strong></a></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">3 February, 2013</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Share this story:</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&winname=addthis&pub=ra-4d8e32e036fbe3c4&source=tbx-250&lng=en&s=linkedin&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.messagetoeagle.com%2F3dprintinglunarbase.php&title=ESA%3A%20How%20To%20Build%20A%20Lunar%20Base%20With%203D%20Printing%20-%20MessageToEagle.com&ate=AT-ra-4d8e32e036fbe3c4/-/-/510eede58ad5b450/2/509f4b2316c40b49&frommenu=1&uid=509f4b2316c40b49&ct=1&pre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.messagetoeagle.com%2F3dprintinglunarbase.php%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BMessagetoeaglecom%2B%2528Message%2BTo%2BEagle%2B-%2BNews%2529&tt=0&captcha_provider=nucaptcha" target="_blank">Share on linkedin</a> <a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/3dprintinglunarbase.php#" target="_blank">Share on facebook</a> <a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/3dprintinglunarbase.php#" target="_blank">Share on twitter</a> <a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/3dprintinglunarbase.php#" target="_blank">Share on email</a> <a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/3dprintinglunarbase.php#" target="_blank">More Sharing Services</a> <a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/3dprintinglunarbase.php#" target="_blank">2</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Setting up a lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster + Partners have joined with ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“Terrestrial 3D printing technology has produced entire structures,” said Laurent Pambaguian, heading the project for ESA.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“Our industrial team investigated if it could similarly be employed to build a lunar habitat.”</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Foster + Partners devised a weight-bearing ‘catenary’ dome design with a cellular structured wall to shield against micrometeoroids and space radiation, incorporating a pressurised inflatable to shelter astronauts.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase01.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #ff0000">Click on image to enlarge</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Title Multi-dome base being constructed</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Multi-dome lunar base being constructed, based on the 3D printing concept. Once assembled, the inflated domes are covered with a layer of 3D-printed lunar regolith by robots to help protect the occupants against space radiation and micrometeoroids. Credits: ESA</em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">A hollow closed-cell structure – reminiscent of bird bones – provides a good combination of strength and weight.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The base’s design was guided in turn by the properties of 3D-printed lunar soil, with a 1.5 tonne building block produced as a demonstration.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“3D printing offers a potential means of facilitating lunar settlement with reduced logistics from Earth,” added Scott Hovland of ESA’s human spaceflight team.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“The new possibilities this work opens up can then be considered by international space agencies as part of the current development of a common exploration strategy.”</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“As a practice, we are used to designing for extreme climates on Earth and exploiting the environmental benefits of using local, sustainable materials,” remarked Xavier De Kestelier of Foster + Partners Specialist Modelling Group. “Our lunar habitation follows a similar logic.”</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The UK’s Monolite supplied the D-Shape printer, with a mobile printing array of nozzles on a 6 m frame to spray a binding solution onto a sand-like building material.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">3D ‘printouts’ are built up layer by layer – the company more typically uses its printer to create sculptures and is working on artificial coral reefs to help preserve beaches from energetic sea waves.</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase03.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #ff0000">Click on image to enlarge</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Lunar base made with 3D printing</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Setting up a future lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster+Partners have joined with ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil. The base is first unfolded from a tubular module that can be easily transported by space rocket. An inflatable dome then extends from one end of this cylinder to provide a support structure for construction. Layers of regolith are then built up over the dome by a robot-operated 3D printer (right) to create a protective shell. Credits: ESA</em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“First, we needed to mix the simulated lunar material with magnesium oxide. This turns it into ‘paper’ we can print with,” explained Monolite founder Enrico Dini.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">1.5 tonne building block produced as a demonstration</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>This 1.5 tonne building block was produced as a demonstration of 3D printing techniques using lunar soil. The design is based on a hollow closed-cell structure – reminiscent of bird bones – to give a good combination of strength and weight. Credits: ESA</em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“Then for our structural ‘ink’ we apply a binding salt which converts material to a stone-like solid.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">“Our current printer builds at a rate of around 2 m per hour, while our next-generation design should attain 3.5 m per hour, completing an entire building in a week.”</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster + Partners have joined with ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“Terrestrial 3D printing technology has produced entire structures,” said Laurent Pambaguian, heading the project for ESA.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“Our industrial team investigated if it could similarly be employed to build a lunar habitat.”[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Foster + Partners devised a weight-bearing ‘catenary’ dome design with a cellular structured wall to shield against micrometeoroids and space radiation, incorporating a pressurised inflatable to shelter astronauts.[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase01.jpg'] [IMG]http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase01.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=4][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Click on image to enlarge[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Title Multi-dome base being constructed[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]Multi-dome lunar base being constructed, based on the 3D printing concept. Once assembled, the inflated domes are covered with a layer of 3D-printed lunar regolith by robots to help protect the occupants against space radiation and micrometeoroids. Credits: ESA[/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]A hollow closed-cell structure – reminiscent of bird bones – provides a good combination of strength and weight.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]The base’s design was guided in turn by the properties of 3D-printed lunar soil, with a 1.5 tonne building block produced as a demonstration.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“3D printing offers a potential means of facilitating lunar settlement with reduced logistics from Earth,” added Scott Hovland of ESA’s human spaceflight team.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“The new possibilities this work opens up can then be considered by international space agencies as part of the current development of a common exploration strategy.”[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“As a practice, we are used to designing for extreme climates on Earth and exploiting the environmental benefits of using local, sustainable materials,” remarked Xavier De Kestelier of Foster + Partners Specialist Modelling Group. “Our lunar habitation follows a similar logic.”[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]The UK’s Monolite supplied the D-Shape printer, with a mobile printing array of nozzles on a 6 m frame to spray a binding solution onto a sand-like building material.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]3D ‘printouts’ are built up layer by layer – the company more typically uses its printer to create sculptures and is working on artificial coral reefs to help preserve beaches from energetic sea waves.[/SIZE] [URL='http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase03.jpg'] [IMG]http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase03.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#ff0000]Click on image to enlarge[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Lunar base made with 3D printing[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]Setting up a future lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster+Partners have joined with ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil. The base is first unfolded from a tubular module that can be easily transported by space rocket. An inflatable dome then extends from one end of this cylinder to provide a support structure for construction. Layers of regolith are then built up over the dome by a robot-operated 3D printer (right) to create a protective shell. Credits: ESA[/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“First, we needed to mix the simulated lunar material with magnesium oxide. This turns it into ‘paper’ we can print with,” explained Monolite founder Enrico Dini.[/SIZE] [IMG]http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/3dprintingmoonbase02.jpg[/IMG] [SIZE=4]1.5 tonne building block produced as a demonstration[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][I]This 1.5 tonne building block was produced as a demonstration of 3D printing techniques using lunar soil. The design is based on a hollow closed-cell structure – reminiscent of bird bones – to give a good combination of strength and weight. Credits: ESA[/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“Then for our structural ‘ink’ we apply a binding salt which converts material to a stone-like solid.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]“Our current printer builds at a rate of around 2 m per hour, while our next-generation design should attain 3.5 m per hour, completing an entire building in a week.”[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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