Lunar BoomTown/Lunar LOX Facility Design Study

Needed:

• Production volumes
• Installation schedule
• Location, deliverables requirements, and volume of specific customers.

Design Study Approach

• Review existing technical literature and applicable terrestrial facilities and technologies
• Detail assumptions/projections of representative customer base
• Line out major facility requirements and components sufficient for business planning

Deliverables:

• Project Customer and Facility site maps.
• Major subsystem and equipment list
• Logistics plan, quantities, transport methods, etc.
• Operations plans, who works where when responsibilities etc.
• Projected operations costs and production capacities

Notes

"Several processes have been suggested (Criswell, 1980) for accomplishing this, including reduction of raw soil by fluorine (which is recovered) or reduction or iron-titanium oxide (ilmenite) hydrogen (also recovered). Preliminary laboratory studies have verified the concepts behind some of these processes."[1] Mirwin 20:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Applicable information resources

• http://www.hq.nasa.gov/webaccess/CommSpaceTrans/SpaceCommTransSec39/CommSpacTransSec39.html

Contains estimated pricing and quantities for commercial lunar lox facility ... useful as check on our estimates.

University of Wisconsin course notes "Lunar Base Activation"

• http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/lecture22.html
• http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/FALL97/LEC24/lecture24.html