“China begins an experiment to create bricks for a lunar base from lunar soil China will send brick samples to the Tiangong space station for testing the construction of a lunar base. The experiment will last three years and is aimed at creating a permanent base on the moon by 2035.”, — write on: unn.ua
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Brick samples will be sent aboard a cargo rocket bound for China’s Tiangong space station, part of Beijing’s mission to land humans on the moon by 2030 and establish a permanent base there by 2035.
The structure will have to withstand a huge amount of cosmic radiation, extreme temperature changes from 180 to -190 degrees Celsius and moonquakes, and the delivery of building materials there is an expensive procedure.
Scientists from a university in the central province of Wuhan hope that building a base on the moon could be a solution to these problems.
They created a series of prototype bricks made from different compositions of materials found on Earth, such as basalt, that mimic the properties of lunar soil. The exposure experiment will last three years, and samples will be sent for testing every year.
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A team led by Huazhong University of Science and Technology professor Zhou Chen developed the prototype bricks after analyzing soil delivered by China’s Chanye-5 probe, the world’s first lunar sample collection mission in four decades.
According to him, the obtained black bricks are three times stronger than standard ones and are attached to each other without the use of a binder.
The team also worked on the Moon Spider, a 3D-printed robot to build structures in space, some of which are conical in shape.
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