[v0.1] BACE Construction Co.

[Rico88]

- Large habitation modue

- Solar power plant

- Communications building (with a large dish, and some antennas)

[Lunniy Korabl]

Biodome!

[Panichio]

Perhaps some sort of rover deployment platform?

This. Or even a rover inside it as well!

I know you are waiting for persistence to fly the Mun base up in multiple missions but I think it would still be very useful now to make them also dummy parts so you can fly them all in one go for now.

[OtherDalfite]

An observatory

Communications dish.

Agricultural pod.

Helium-3 factory.

Science lab.

Munar VAB

And.... That\'s all I can think of at the moment.

[NovaSilisko]

An observatory - definitely, I\'ll get on that

Communications dish. - that works, too

Agricultural pod. - planned, not sure how to make it obvious that it\'s a farm inside

Helium-3 factory. - not exactly sure what that would look like

Science lab. - sure

Munar VAB - far too big for a single module.

[Polecat Industries]

An observatory - definitely, I\'ll get on that

Communications dish. - that works, too

Agricultural pod. - planned, not sure how to make it obvious that it\'s a farm inside

Helium-3 factory. - not exactly sure what that would look like

Science lab. - sure

Munar VAB - far too big for a single module.

Large red letters that say FARM.

[OtherDalfite]

Large red letters that say FARM.

I laughed at the thought of that a lot longer than I should have.

[Aliv3]

Can we have a dome with one tree and some grass? just for kicks?

[Cepheus]

Helium-3 factory. - not exactly sure what that would look like

I\'d like to assume that it\'s something like this, but less lego-ey.

[venku122]

I\'d like to assume that it\'s something like this, but less lego-ey.

Mega blocks are not legos. FOR SHAME!

[Cepheus]

Mega blocks are not legos. FOR SHAME!

Going by the little golden figure by the wheels. Looks like one of those Minifigs.

[NovaSilisko]

I can testify those are legos. I have at least one of every piece pictured there.

[venku122]

Going by the little golden figure by the wheels. Looks like one of those Minifigs.

The wheels and overabundance of custom parts points to megablocks

[NovaSilisko]

The wheels I don\'t recognize. But the majority of the parts are lego. I can see lightsabers and droid torsos making up the rover, and omnidirectional joints for the walker\'s legs.

[Gubru]

Could we get the lander legs, separate from the engine module?

[TimothyC]

Agricultural pod. - planned, not sure how to make it obvious that it\'s a farm inside

Hm. A dome similar to the one on the nuclear reactor with blue top triangles with green accents near the bottom. In place of the nuclear trefoil, I\'d use a green plant logo like the one in Wall-E. I\'ll post a low res screen cap once If find me DVD. It would probably be a very simple mod (slight expansion of the fuel and power arms, and a reskin).

Edit: Louie Mantia has done a really good wallpaper that shows the logo I was thinking off: Link to 'Operation Recolonize'.

Helium-3 factory. - not exactly sure what that would look like

Big, industrial, and lots of pipes everywhere. It would need a scooping arm structure (maybe like the one on the reactor) and a cracking tower like structure and small tanks at the bottom. I\'m trying to think of a way that it wouldn\'t be a super-high polygon model.

[venku122]

The wheels I don\'t recognize. But the majority of the parts are lego. I can see lightsabers and droid torsos making up the rover, and omnidirectional joints for the walker\'s legs.

its probably because the minifig is a fake and completely out of scale from the rest of the models. The wheels are DEFINITELY not lego.

[Satellife]

Helium-3 factory. - not exactly sure what that would look like

If anyone\'s interested, I did a project in collaboration with NASA a few months ago that was centered around lunar He-3 resource development., I could post a few of the design concepts that were included in the report.

[Cepheus]

If anyone\'s interested, I did a project in collaboration with NASA a few months ago that was centered around lunar He-3 resource development., I could post a few of the design concepts that were included in the report.

I say do it.

[venku122]

If anyone\'s interested, I did a project in collaboration with NASA a few months ago that was centered around lunar He-3 resource development., I could post a few of the design concepts that were included in the report.

make sure you check that NASA wants their Helium-3 concepts shared first. They probably don\'t care but just to be sure.

[DeCi]

make sure you check that NASA wants their Helium-3 concepts shared first. They probably don\'t care but just to be sure.

Either way check outside your house for a white van.

[Satellife]

make sure you check that NASA wants their Helium-3 concepts shared first. They probably don\'t care but just to be sure.

Oh, I\'m pretty sure they wouldn\'t care. The designs our team presented were never approved due to budget cuts and whatnot, so I\'d be surprised if they even know they exist.

That said, the design can be pretty flexible. There are just a few things that need to be taken into account when talking about Helium-3 mining, specifically.

1) You don\'t need to dig deep. 70% of the He3 resides in the top 4 inches of regolith dust. The most efficient design would be a sort of scoop/trough design that would plow around the surface and collect the 'dust.'

2) Unless you want a small reactor on-board, you\'ll need a large solar collector to generate the heat energy necessary to process the regolith and separate the He3 from the other elements.

3) This almost goes without saying, but remember that He3 is a gas, so you\'ll need tanks to store it until you can transfer it to a transport/storage vehicle.

4) Don\'t forget about the other elements found in regolith! Once processed, you can extract Oxygen, Aluminum and trace amounts of Hydrogen from the rock.

(A general outline of a lunar resource development lander)

[venku122]

Oh, I\'m pretty sure they wouldn\'t care. The designs our team presented were never approved due to budget cuts and whatnot, so I\'d be surprised if they even know they exist.

That said, the design can be pretty flexible. There are just a few things that need to be taken into account when talking about Helium-3 mining, specifically.

1) You don\'t need to dig deep. 70% of the He3 resides in the top 4 inches of regolith dust. The most efficient design would be a sort of scoop/trough design that would plow around the surface and collect the 'dust.'

2) Unless you want a small reactor on-board, you\'ll need a large solar collector to generate the heat energy necessary to process the regolith and separate the He3 from the other elements.

3) This almost goes without saying, but remember that He3 is a gas, so you\'ll need tanks to store it until you can transfer it to a transport/storage vehicle.

4) Don\'t forget about the other elements found in regolith! Once processed, you can extract Oxygen, Aluminum and trace amounts of Hydrogen from the rock.

(A general outline of a lunar resource development lander)

That looks awesome!

[DeCi]

Oh, I\'m pretty sure they wouldn\'t care. The designs our team presented were never approved due to budget cuts and whatnot, so I\'d be surprised if they even know they exist.

That said, the design can be pretty flexible. There are just a few things that need to be taken into account when talking about Helium-3 mining, specifically.

1) You don\'t need to dig deep. 70% of the He3 resides in the top 4 inches of regolith dust. The most efficient design would be a sort of scoop/trough design that would plow around the surface and collect the 'dust.'

2) Unless you want a small reactor on-board, you\'ll need a large solar collector to generate the heat energy necessary to process the regolith and separate the He3 from the other elements.

3) This almost goes without saying, but remember that He3 is a gas, so you\'ll need tanks to store it until you can transfer it to a transport/storage vehicle.

4) Don\'t forget about the other elements found in regolith! Once processed, you can extract Oxygen, Aluminum and trace amounts of Hydrogen from the rock.

(A general outline of a lunar resource development lander)

That story made me think so much of the Movie \'Moon\'.

Dunno if you\'ve seen it, but in that movie they ( corporation ) harvests the moons surface aswell for some sort of rocks/gas to send back to earth wich apperantly is highly valuable.

Imagine Huge combine machines raking the surface of the moon! it seemed pretty realistic.

Go see it! Awesome movie.

[NovaSilisko]

Every current and previous of my project threads is going to be deleted and placed into a new master Silisko Industries thread. I need to prepare for this, so it will take a while.