Russian scientists to invent robot making construction materials on Moon

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Russian scientists to invent robot making construction materials on Moon
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Some countries, particularly the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain and Japan have announced plans to build bases on the Moon.




It was reported that inhabited research stations could be established on the Moon approximately in 2030-2040s years. Future lunar colonies will require building structures protecting module bases from external effects, for example, fluxes of micro-meteorites attacking the lunar surface at a speed of 100 thousand km/h.

However, delivering ordinary bricks on the lunar site will be too expensive, not to mention concrete blocks. Hence, the materials need to be made directly on the Moon. So, Samara Polytechnic Institute, based in Russia, has introduced a project for the production of artificial stones from the lunar soil, a so-called regolith.

According to the plan, the lunar “bricks” can be produced with the use of a special robotic complex based on the technology of 3D printer that exploits sunlight. Such a “printer” – a heliolithograph – will automatically sinter the lunar soil into a solid stone by using a focused sunlight beam.

A working prototype of the robotic complex is planned to be made until the end of 2018.



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