EM2 in the Pub, part 8: designing a vacuum dome
How do you design a large vacuum vessel to house a moon simulation environment? Matt Shadwell has the answers.
How do you design a large vacuum vessel to house a moon simulation environment? Matt Shadwell has the answers.
Boswell Technologies is happy to see Australian expertise being selected for our moon rover.
A concrete dome to house the test lunar environment is under construction in northern NSW. Here’s a summary edit of progress: This episode features footage of the construction of the first concrete dome that will be used as a test lunar environment – pumped down to a vacuum and filled with basaltic sand. This three …
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In this episode, Rod and his students conduct an analysis of the requirements of a dome to house a vacuum equivalent to that on the moon. EM2 is the Earth to Moon to Mars project, to develop and test technology for humankind’s colonisation of other world. NASA has identified a moon base as the springboard …
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