Скачать или смотреть 2026 RASC-AL Proposal - University of Arizona, Wildcat Moon Miners 'STrIKE-1'

Expanding human presence on the Moon demands steadily increasing, long‑duration energy supply through the harsh lunar night, requiring a robust, evolvable architecture for collecting, storing, conditioning, and distributing power from diverse sources to a wide range of systems. STrIKE-1 is a proposal for unifying power generation and storage, managment and distribution (PMAD) to support loads from small rovers (~100 W) to human habitats (tens of kW) across varying thermal and operational conditions. The supporting subsystems—including mass, power, volume, data rates, dust mitigation, extreme temperatures, and shadowed regions—are characterized to identify required technologies. The concept is aligned with the end of NASA’s Foundational Exploration phase, expected lifetimes and costs of major elements, and a pathway for extending the architecture to future Mars operations.