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11.1.2024 PARAMETERS CALCULATION OF THE LUNAR REGOLITH TRANSPORT SYSTEM

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11. Parameters calculation of the lunar regolith transport system

Authors:

Semenenko Ye. V.¹, Biliaiev M. M.², Semenenko P. V.³

Organization:

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, M.S. Poliakov Institute of geotechnical mechanics¹; Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies²; Yangel Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Dnipro, Ukraine³

Page: Kosm. teh. Raket. vooruž. 2024, (1); 93-101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33136/stma2024.01.093

Language: Ukrainian

Annotation: The objective of this article is to develop a scientifically proven method of calculation of the auger conveyor parameters, such as the conveyor capacity and the corresponding power of the electrical motor, for different densities and porosities of conveyed materials, the geometrical parameters of the auger, and the specificity of the gravitational fields at the place of transportation. Another objective is to investigate potential limitations of the auger parameters when transporting lunar regolith. To reach these objectives, the known relations for calculating the auger conveyor parameters were applied, as well as the fundamental laws of the granular media mechanics, the principal equations of asynchronous motor electrodynamics, and the behavior of granular media when moving it with the auger conveyor, experimentally studied by the domestic authors. It gave the possibility, for the first time for the lunar environment, to suggest a procedure to calculate the auger conveyor parameters, such as the conveyor capacity and the corresponding power of the electric motor, using known geometrical parameters of the mainline and pipeline, the auger conveyor filling ratio and the parameters of the selected electrical motor. It gave the possibilities to study how the filling ratio of the auger conveyor influences its principal performance parameters and determine potential limitations of the geometrical parameters and the filling ratios of auger conveyors according to the parameters and features of the selected electrical motor. The allowable transportation distances, diameters, other geometrical parameters of auger conveyors, and conveyor filling ratios with the selected electrical motor have been determined. It has been proven that the solutions based on using auger conveyors would be most rational for transporting loose lunar regolith over the Moon’s surface because the auger conveyors are compact and adaptable, and they can be placed inside tubes and laid under the day surface, thereby ensuring the continuous transportation process. Furthermore, they are capable of autonomous operation and can use the electricity produced by solar arrays.

Key words: Moon, regolith, auger, electric motor, capacity, power

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3.1.2024 Future projects of lunar exploration implemented by Yuzhnoye SDO

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3. Future projects of lunar exploration implemented by Yuzhnoye SDO

Authors:

Husarova I. O., Lysenko Yu. O., Osinovyi G. G.

Organization:

Yangel Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Dnipro, Ukraine

Page: Kosm. teh. Raket. vooruž. 2024, (1); 19-28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33136/stma2024.01.019

Language: English

Annotation: Over the past years, the leading space powers have been returning to the idea of expeditions to the Moon and actively designing and manufacturing components for inhabited lunar bases. Yuzhnoye State Design Office has its own concept of a lunar base and, of course, cannot stand aside from the solution of scientific and technical problems related to the Moon exploration. Specialists of Yuzhnoye SDO completed conceptual development of a significant range of technologies required for the Moon exploration: a space transportation system for lunar expeditions; landers to deliver payloads to the surface of the Moon and transport experimental equipment; mobile laboratories; a reconnaissance rover to provide reconnaissance missions on the surface of the Moon; vehicles to provide lifting and transport, assembly and construction, production and technological and soil extraction work on the surface of the Moon; habitat units and other elements of the lunar infrastructure. Taking into account the high costs of lunar exploration, it is clear that international cooperation is the most realistic scenario for Yuzhnoye SDO to participate in the exploration. The U.S. lunar program is the most attractive. Private companies that NASA selects for the lunar programs can become partners of Yuzhnoye. With a view to ensuring the participation of Yuzhnoye SDO in international programs, the current state of global technologies for the Moon exploration was analyzed and opportunities to promote technologies developed by Ukrainian specialists on the international market of space technologies were identified based on the analysis. Taking into account the high level of technologies developed by the potential partners, it is proposed for the first time to consider it advisable to promote Yuzhnoye’s technologies with TRL 6–9 which have already been successfully tested and the innovative technologies developed by the company which have no analogues in the world or surpass the world level in terms of their technological and economic performance. Based on the analysis of the Lunar Industrial & Research Base conceptual design, such technologies may include rocket propulsion, units and assemblies of liquid-propellant propulsion (TRL 6–9), as well as future designs such as a hydrogen energy accumulator and inert anodes made of ultra-high-temperature ceramics for electrolysis of regolith melts.

Key words: rocket propulsion, hydrogen energy accumulator, inert anodes.

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