Insight · May 3, 2024

Designing for Partial Gravity: The Lunar Habitat Problem

Lunar gravity is not microgravity and not Earth. No one has operationalized habitation in the regime between them.

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A new design space

At one-sixth g, assumptions from both the ISS and terrestrial architecture break. Circulation, stowage, and human factors all need re-deriving.

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This is exactly the mid-gap problem the Lab exists to close: designing and validating for a regime with almost no operational precedent.

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