Architecture Study for a Fuel Depot Supplied from Lunar Resources

• Published in: NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI). Conference Proceedings
• Main Author: Perrin, Thomas M
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Hampton NASA/Langley Research Center 13.09.2016
• Subjects: Architecture; Cargo spacecraft; Fuels; Graphical representations; Liquid hydrogen; Liquid oxygen; Lunar resources; Mars missions; Moon; Propellant transfer

Heretofore, discussions of space fuel depots assumed the depots would be supplied from Earth. However, the confirmation of deposits of water ice at the lunar poles in 2009 suggests the possibility of supplying a space depot with liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen produced from lunar ice. This architectur...