Tuesday, October 12, 2021

NIAC 2021 - Lunar Far Side Observatory

 Ronald Polidan

Notes by Paul Fischer


Lunar Resources, Inc.

Phase 1


I work at Lunar Resources and I am the principle investigator for the Lunar Far side Observatory

Resolved key architectural issues, no problems proceeding


What are we trying to do in our study?

This observatory will open on the far side of the lunar far side, enabling tehnologies and extracted lunar issues including the antennas on the power structure


Unprecedented insight, nearby exoplanets and the solar system

This will provide photos of the solar system every few moments


This advancement will have a very broad approach and impact on solar panels, batteries and arrays


When the first stars had yet to form, to do this. We will use a 21 cm signal, a large number of dipoles

Cosmic dawn and identifies the remain that will remain with that score


New insights into the physics and the cosmological models


Localizing electron shock etc…


Detect radio emissions from exoplanets and radio transient objects


Molten electrolysis to convert raw materials into metal and oxygen



Vapor deposition technology

Specific design for Farview Iis currently at TRL 5

During lunar day and lunar night, resilient and adaptable, science needs and a better lunar environment


Architecture and approach 


Each array contains 500-600 dipole antennas and 150-200 subarrays will be prepared


Our poster shows a map of the lunar far side… so how do we actually build farview?



Multiple manufacturing rovers and a single processing facility

The RPS thermal design allows it to survive the lunar night

From the third day forward, construction rovers will build the necessary power infrastructure, growing as more subarrays come online

The construction will only be done in both lunar day and lunar night.


Occasional replenishment from earth, otherwise virtually no maintenance needed.


The ability to land hundreds of tons of materials…


Fairview will be imaged because of the lunar sky on the horizon including CMEs, allowing new insights into this phenomenon


Beam integrity to do science


Do you have to use aluminum? What about sodium or mg?

The process used to extract the metals, aluminum is abundant enough to give us all of the material we need.


Infrastructure costs for landers and such

Our hardware is actually really inexpensive, and lower cost than any of the conventional system methods…

Shown the gravity to work with regulith…

Is there any information on the rovers?

Astrobotic and their demands are similar to what we expect for the rovers?

The second part of the question answered most of the question at large


How are you powering these rovers when you are in production mode?

One thing the rovers can do is to build solar arrays

We can talk to astrobotic and we can build a kilowatt array and supply power as needed


Where to see other applications with the regulate process etc… for Farview, someone with the metals and people with the processing units we can produce any metals that we wish, it is a versatile way to provide habitats or anything that people might want


The array will be tunable, it comes to the separations of the dipoles and the analysis that we would do


We can basically design it as we go etc…


How do we extract the aluminum etc?


We input the regulith and use electrolysis and move them to a purification site and we have all the metals we need


How to manage the poor power factor or low power?


We have the ability to supply whatever is needed


The power is not an issue for us


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