Massive Moon Savings: Cut 80% of Payload Weight with Centralised Thermal Tech

Every piece of lunar infrastructure on the Moon, from habitation modules, power systems and rovers must deal with extreme temperature swings, or either melt or freeze.

One service that space startups could offer is thermal management. In this video, I look at this concept using the DARPA commercial lunar economy field guide as a reference.

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00:00 Intro
01:26 Thermal Management
02:35 Thermal Hub Concept
03:59 Introducing the Lunar Oasis
05:02 Thermal Architecture
05:18 Thermal Core
05:41 Radiators
06:15 Premium Plan: Active Cooling
06:29 Standard Plan: Passive Cooling
06:45 Basic Plan: MLI Tent
07:07 Lithium-Ion Battery Storage
07:27 Radioactive Heat Source (Optional)
07:57 Why Thermal Management As a Service Makes Sense
11:02 Thermal Hubs Complement Power Microgrids
11:36 Using Lunar Soil as a Thermal Battery
13:57 Final Thoughts
15:14 Outro

Sources:

New DARPA 'field guide' looks for ways to jump-start a moon economy: https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/new-darpa-field-guide-looks-for-ways-to-jump-start-a-moon-economy

The Commercial Lunar Economy Field Guide: A Vision for Industry on the Moon in the Next Decade: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AUPress/Display/Article/4250446/the-commercial-lunar-economy-field-guide-a-vision-for-industry-on-the-moon-in-t/

Honeybee Robotics to Develop LUNARSABER for DARPA’s LunA-10 Program: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/honeybee-robotics-to-develop-lunarsaber-for-darpas-luna-10-program

The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland: https://newatlas.com/energy/largest-sand-battery-finland-pornainen/

What Is a Sand Battery? Polar Night Energy's Sand-based Thermal Energy Storage Explained: https://youtu.be/bZ9TyJ1bQ3Y