About: Soft and Rough Lander Systems

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Delivering supplies and equipment to the lunar or planetary surface in great quantity and at low cost will be key to making colonization attainable. The ultimate goal of the telerobotic settlement is, of course, self-sufficiency through the ability to replicate all its systems with local resources. But initially there would be little such capability and so it is necessary to supply initial outposts as economically as possible. Employing telerobotic settlement prior to human settlement itself greatly aids this by drastically reducing the scale and cost of spacecraft and systems by virtue of their lack of need for ‘man rating’ of hardware. But further steps will be needed to make this approach practical at the potential small community project scale it aspires to. Key to this is the strategy

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rdfs:label	Soft and Rough Lander Systems
rdfs:comment	Delivering supplies and equipment to the lunar or planetary surface in great quantity and at low cost will be key to making colonization attainable. The ultimate goal of the telerobotic settlement is, of course, self-sufficiency through the ability to replicate all its systems with local resources. But initially there would be little such capability and so it is necessary to supply initial outposts as economically as possible. Employing telerobotic settlement prior to human settlement itself greatly aids this by drastically reducing the scale and cost of spacecraft and systems by virtue of their lack of need for ‘man rating’ of hardware. But further steps will be needed to make this approach practical at the potential small community project scale it aspires to. Key to this is the strategy
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abstract	Delivering supplies and equipment to the lunar or planetary surface in great quantity and at low cost will be key to making colonization attainable. The ultimate goal of the telerobotic settlement is, of course, self-sufficiency through the ability to replicate all its systems with local resources. But initially there would be little such capability and so it is necessary to supply initial outposts as economically as possible. Employing telerobotic settlement prior to human settlement itself greatly aids this by drastically reducing the scale and cost of spacecraft and systems by virtue of their lack of need for ‘man rating’ of hardware. But further steps will be needed to make this approach practical at the potential small community project scale it aspires to. Key to this is the strategy of equipment in the form of modular components rather than whole assembled systems and devices. Of necessity, the Beachhead Outposts would employ systems delivered whole. But once some robotic capability is established, it becomes far more cost-effective to deliver components rather than whole systems and assemble them on arrival because this allows for tighter packaging and the use of alternative modes of transportation with lower minimum reliability/failure rate standards. The technology of disposable ‘rough’ surface landers will be critical here, though ‘soft’ landers will also be necessary. What are rough and soft landers? In this section we will examine these concepts in detail and consider some likely designs.

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