Company - Shimizu Corporation
Product/Service - Luna Ring
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- Resources - Energy
Power Beaming
Hardware
- Fields
- Wireless Power Transfer
Space Solar Power
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- 2035
Solar panel array around the Moon
Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corp. has unveiled a proposal that entails building a solar panel array around the Moon's equator, then sending the power it collects back to Earth. They are calling the project LUNA RING.
Product/Service
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- Space Construction Equipment
Hardware
Space Robotics
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
Japan's Space construction innovation project, 2021-2025
- Development of Environment Recognition Infrastructure System for Autonomous Construction and Demonstration of Autonomous Construction
- Autonomous construction on the Moon is essential due to communication delays from Earth. AI-powered systems that can make decisions on the construction machinery enables near-autonomous decentralized construction and recognition systems for special environments such as the Moon. We also aim to establish a recognition system in a special environment such as the Moon.
- Using only simple instructions, the AI generates work paths, thus enabling more advanced autonomous construction. A foundation for such environment recognition system enables diversified autonomous construction equipment.
- Technology classification: Construction (spreading, etc.)
- Co-implementer: Bosch Engineering
- On-Ground Testbed Development of an Inflatable Lunar Habitat Module
- Folding lunar habitat modules up and deploying them on the moon can reduce transportation costs by reducing payload weight and space on rockets fairing. Our Team focuses on realizing an on-ground testbed of an inflatable structure of flexible membranes.
- Based on the technical issues identified in the 2021 feasibility study phase, our team will develop (1) a high-strength flexible structure that can withstand the severe environment on the moon while maintaining a habitable room, (2) an autonomous decentralized status monitoring and shape control system, and (3) numerical structural models to compute and design the structural strength.
- Technology classification: Simple facility
- Co-implementer: Taiyo Kogyo Corporation, Tokyo University of Science
Created: 2024-02-18
Updated: 2024-03-02
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