Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2488 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144376)
Principal Investigator: Bin-Shafique, Md
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 45,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 6/1/22 - 7/31/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: SCIENCES
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Camee UTSA
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Site Preparation for Landing/Launch Pad and Blast Shield Construction
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Astroport Space Technologies
CFDA: 0
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1; Astroport is a space technology and construction company focused on using lunar regolith to create launch and landing pads (LLPs) for large, human-scale lunar landers and other lunar surface infrastructure. Work by Dr. Phil Metzger at University of Central Florida shows that landing on unprepared lunar surfaces can excavate tons of regolith, send high-velocity lunar regolith particles kilometers from the landing site and inject some particles into lunar orbit. Therefore, lunar LLPs are needed to protect surface and orbital assets from debris damage and provide solid, impervious surfaces for multiple landings near a permanent lunar facility. In conjunction with A Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for Astroports approach, this project aims to construct an LLP for this STTR topic based uniquely on Astroports landing pad brickmaking and placement technology. UTSA will contribute to this mission through numerical simulations and experimental tests. The research findings for this project will be collected and analyzed
Discussion: No discussion notes