Earthrise 1, building a stripmining base on the moon

摘要

As part of the study Civil Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, students have to do a project in their fourth year. Last year one of the assignments was a system study about building a strip-mining base on the moon. As many aspects as possible had to be integrated to make this study as realistic as possible. This paper will give a short overview of the results of this system study. The goal of this study was to come up with a fully operational base that had to be designed as complete as possible in 7 weeks. The final result includes the bases' components, the operating needs, selection of location, functional and technical design of the components, design considerations, expansion possibilities, a short summary about expansion possibilities, time schedule, way of construction, cost analysis and risk analysis.