Lunar Dust Mitigation
Lunar dust is a serious creates serious issues for long-term settlement ambitions on the Lunar surface. My project aims to look at alternative ways to reduce the potency of lunar dust and its’ effects on critical infrastructure.
To begin this assessment, five levels of characterisations were first created in order to grasp an overview of Lunar dust generation. Each generation investigates the amount of dust generated and takes into account what kind of solutions can be used. The first section focuses on dust large-volume dust generation by either mining or rocket-based activities. Here, for instance, it is recommended that infrastructure-based solutions are used to reduce the effects in further sections. Each section would support the next section, whereby the final section would only have the fine and leftover particles, employing more manual and rigorous mitigation strategies such as the time-proven method of scrubbing.
The work in this section is supported by Swinburne University of Technology und the RTPS Stipend and aims to be as open source as possible.
