Minimal Configuration Lunar Habitat

Abstract

Alongside with other leading space organizations, Yuzhnoye State Design Office organized its own conceptual work on development of the Lunar Industry & Research Base. One of its operation phases is the minimal configuration base. Two modules, an airlock and a habitat, will be delivered to the Moon in the frames of this phase. They will become the first habitable outpost ensuring testing out of main technological and design solutions, exploitation technologies, practical tasks of initial and further lunar base development. Both modules are designed on the basis of a typical structure with consideration of functional supplements for each module. In terms of structure, modules represent hermetic cylindrical shells with a diameter of 3 meters and a length of 6 meters. They were designed to use existing technologies proved for development of hermetic shells (propellant tanks) of Ukrainian cooperation production.