Re:Power on the Moon. What Will It Take to Survive the Lunar...
by johnwalkr on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:59AM
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The lunar surface temperature is like -150C at night. And yeah, heat loss is radiative.. to a sink at roughly -273C. And night is 2 weeks long. Just use solar heaters and insulation? Well you have to fly that stuff there first, and also fly whatever equipment and people/robots to make the system.
There are various studies to have stuff survive lunar night without a nuclear source, and it takes on the order of 10kg of stuff to keep a 1kg payload alive. And in turn that takes 100kg of spacecraft/fuel to fly it all there. That’s not including the rocket and its fuel to get to Earth orbit first.
There are various studies to have stuff survive lunar night without a nuclear source, and it takes on the order of 10kg of stuff to keep a 1kg payload alive. And in turn that takes 100kg of spacecraft/fuel to fly it all there. That’s not including the rocket and its fuel to get to Earth orbit first.