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Article

Concept of a 3D-Printed Voronoi Egg-Shaped Habitat for Permanent Lunar Outpost

by
David Juračka
1,
Jacek Katzer
2,*,
Janusz Kobaka
2,
Izabela Świca
2 and
Karol Seweryn
3
1
Faculty of Civil Engineering, VSB–Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic
2
Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
3
Space Research Centre PAS (CBK PAN), 00-716 Warszawa, Poland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(2), 1153; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13021153
Submission received: 17 December 2022 / Revised: 7 January 2023 / Accepted: 12 January 2023 / Published: 15 January 2023
(This article belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)
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Abstract

The article presents a concept of a lunar base that would take advantage of the natural shape of an egg. Several versions of egg-shaped habitat structures characterized by different sizes are presented. Possible locations of habitats both on lunar surface and in craters were discussed. Advantages and disadvantages of particular locations were also pointed out. The proposed in the paper concept of an egg-shaped structure is characterised by a spatial character based on Voronoi diagram and would be implemented using a 3D-printed method. The presented 3D-printed structure was designed to be light and suitable to be covered by lunar soil. As a necessity in the developed concept, in situ resources utilization was addressed in order to generate products using local sources to reduce the number of materials that would be required to be transported from Earth. At the end of the paper, future areas of research and tests are highlighted.
Keywords: the Moon; lunar outpost; space; 3D printing; Voronoi structure the Moon; lunar outpost; space; 3D printing; Voronoi structure

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Juračka, D.; Katzer, J.; Kobaka, J.; Świca, I.; Seweryn, K. Concept of a 3D-Printed Voronoi Egg-Shaped Habitat for Permanent Lunar Outpost. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 1153. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13021153

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Juračka D, Katzer J, Kobaka J, Świca I, Seweryn K. Concept of a 3D-Printed Voronoi Egg-Shaped Habitat for Permanent Lunar Outpost. Applied Sciences. 2023; 13(2):1153. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13021153

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Juračka, David, Jacek Katzer, Janusz Kobaka, Izabela Świca, and Karol Seweryn. 2023. "Concept of a 3D-Printed Voronoi Egg-Shaped Habitat for Permanent Lunar Outpost" Applied Sciences 13, no. 2: 1153. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13021153

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Juračka, D., Katzer, J., Kobaka, J., Świca, I., & Seweryn, K. (2023). Concept of a 3D-Printed Voronoi Egg-Shaped Habitat for Permanent Lunar Outpost. Applied Sciences, 13(2), 1153. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13021153

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