Lunar-X Corp.

08/30/2018

The Lunar-X 'VLAR' Robotic Rover will make the full surface exploration and sampling mission on the Lunar surface faster, easier, and more efficient. The VLAR (Very Large Aggregated Rover) will utilize a component aggregation system to take advantage of the physical reality... bigger is often better. The VLAR design we are developing will use an aggregating, or combining system to allow multiple smaller robots to aggregate (combine) into one much larger one.

Force=(m)x(a) Force = [mass] x [acceleration]

The greater the velocity & mass of a given object, the greater the force it exerts on the things around it. On the Moon, the VLAR's size when fully aggregated will simplify terrain navigation by rendering terrain obstacles smaller relative to the size of the Rover, out performing a small rover encountering identical terrain.

With a Rover bigger can be better, relative to the surface terrain on the surface of the Moon because the VLAR's 'stance' will allow it to negotiate and literally 'step over' terrain that a smaller rover might easily be stopped by, or lost in.

Like having a bicycle with larger diameter wheels, fewer wheel rotations are required to travel the same distance as a smaller wheel sized Lunar Rover.

08/20/2018

The 'old school' science many of us were raised on described our Moon as a 'cold, inactive rock'. What a great surprise it was when we learned the iron core of the Moon is surrounded by a molten rock zone of some 2000 degrees farenheight, extending in an approximately 600 kilometer radius up toward the surface. The tidal deformation forces the Earth exerts on the Moon knead it's inner core constantly, generating the heat that may one day provide an endless geothermal energy source via drill shafts & simple heat exchange technology. The deepest bore shaft ever drilled on Earth goes just 12 kilometers deep into the 6400 kilometer radius of the Earth, stopping there due to high subsurface temperatures. The average depth of Earth's molten outer core layer being about 4000 kilometers down, a 12 kilometer bore hole equates to pe*******on of only 0.003% of the distance between the surface and molten core layer.

08/20/2018

Fun Fact: The USA has not sent a craft beyond LEO (Low Earth Orbit) since the last Apollo Moon landing mission in 1972 (Apollo 17), over 45 years ago... But that's about to change, before the 50 year mark.

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03/04/2018

"With the trade-in it was almost free!"

03/04/2018

Old school.... always cool...
Elon Musk's Tesla wasn't the first car in space.

01/27/2018

Why Robots on the Moon?
For many reasons, starting with the inhospitable environment featuring lack of breathable atmosphere, too much radiation, scarcity of water, extreme temperature swings from -250C to +250C, and the need for long hours in work task operations that human beings could not survive. All that being said, the Moon is much more compact and explorable than Earth with it's impassable oceans, jungles, and mountains. Only 2200 miles in diameter compared to Earth's 7900 mile diameter, and with less extreme terrain elevations (in spite of millions of meteor impact craters) the Lunar surface is far more navigable than Earth... if you don't need to eat or breathe. Robotics is the key to exploration and human settlement of the Moon.

01/27/2018

Let there be robots... Or rather, let's talk about robots and robotics developments. In the past we have expressed our belief in the logical practical need for robotics technologies in space, and continue to develop a range of robotic vehicles and exploration machinery from the very small, to VLAR (very large autonomous robots) together with the AI technology needed to make them truly autonomous in their tasks and 'thinking'. Recent concerns expressed by un-named Billionaires regarding AI and it's potential to represent the ultimate danger to humanity do a disservice to the intelligence of robotics and AI specialists. The advances that robots offer humanity are immense, and in our view AI is a boon to science and humanity rather than a threat.

08/30/2017

Our geologist claims most people are unaware that the Lunar surface is far less extreme in elevation variations than Earth, which boasts 7 mile deep oceans, and 6 mile high mountains. Without the natural water, mountain, and tree obstacles of Earth, the Lunar surface is much more navigable.

03/14/2017

Much of the work we do is not public domain technology we can discuss in depth, but here's an area we really enjoy talking about.

Our comprehensive development plan for the Lunar Surface includes construction and 'fueling' of a self-sustaining bio environment that in time will provide 100% of the plant based diet fed to residents, as well as contribute to maintaining the oxygen content of the closed atmosphere within the habitat. Having extra Oxygen in an artificial atmosphere is of course beneficial. Human life can subsist on less than Earth's sea level oxygen level of 20%, maintaining adequate brain function in a 17% Oxygen atmosphere, but a lower oxygen content is not a preferred long-term situation. But, oxygen is also a valuable ingredient for the industrial processes needed for living on the Moon.

01/18/2017

Lunar-X has made a key company acquisition, welcome Tech-Mods.

09/09/2016

Project 'Luster Dragon' nears final design stage, aimed at placing a generation of purpose built self-maintaining robots on the Moon.

08/01/2016

Lunar-X will land the first Robotic Lunar Exploration Drones on the Moon in history to conduct the first full lunar surface VIDEO survey and exploration.

It is technology able to sample the interior of the Moon that will be key to Man's ability to establish a permanent presence on the lunar surface. And the first step in that direction is a ground survey of the primary target terrain identified with the help of the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) satellite.