ROSCOSMOS, INFORMATION AND ANALYTICAL CENTER, SEMINAR ON THE PROJECTS «MOONTRAP» AND «SATTRAP»

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Roscosmos - IAC Seminar - MoonTrap & SatTrap Systems A report on a new promising technology for delivering raw material cargo to the Moon and to artificial satellites of the Moon and Earth, heard at a seminar of the Information and Analysis Center (IAC) of Roscosmos. Speech by the Director of the IAC Dmitry Payson, animated diagrams of the operation of transport systems, video of the operation of experimental prototypes, expert assessments.
Many designers are sure that the lunar industry can only work after the extraction of lunar resources. Is this really so? It turns out that there is a situation when the delivery of raw materials from Earth can be more profitable than obtaining raw materials from local lunar resources. In 2018, Roscosmos considered a project to supply lunar factories with 3D printers of metals and hydrocarbons from Earth, as well as water and other raw materials. The MoonTrap transport system reduces the cost of delivering raw materials from low Earth orbit to the lunar surface by 5-8 times. The hard landing method, which eliminates the use of rocket braking stages, reduces costs. Metal blanks (penetrators) slow down in the ground, crumble into dust and partially mix with the regolith. Wells (channels) filled with metal dust are formed at the impact site. It is not difficult to extract metals from a mixture with regolith. The cost of delivery to the Moon is reduced. And in this case, lunar factories can begin to operate and produce mining and processing equipment. Extracting metals from lunar soil and then casting them into finished products requires hundreds of times less energy than producing metals from regolith. But after turning this raw material into new 3D printers, base structures and units, into oxygen and rocket fuel, it will be possible to move on to using the resources of the Moon.