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Humanity is tackling the challenge of creating a permanent human presence on the Moon, and Canada is contributing by funding novel ideas for Moon infrastructure. With support from the Canadian Space Agency under the Lunar Surface Exploration Initiative, Canadian companies are actively developing solutions to explore and stay for extended periods on our planet’s satellite.
Under this initiative, Canadensys and MayaHTT recently completed a Phase 0 study for a greenhouse to support crewed lunar habitation. This pressurized module, with a mass budget of 11,000 kg and a nuclear reactor for power production, will be landed near a habitat to demonstrate food production on the lunar surface. The objective of this initial phase was to develop and size the architecture for the Thermal Control System.
To obtain insight on the driving design parameters, Maya developed a combined thermal and flow model. A detailed CFD representation was used for the inside of the module, allowing to capture the flow velocities, heat transfer coefficients, as well as verifying temperature and humidity in the plant enclosures and the rest of the habitat. A simplified thermal representation was used for the outside of the module, to capture conduction between the different parts and radiative heating and heat exchanges on the Moon’s South pole.
This presentation will show the thermal and flow results from this Phase 0 study, and discuss the future work and development required in the following phases.
