Lunar 4 Living

I took part in the Blott Matthews engineering competition at school within a team of 9. The challenge was designed to celebrate the ten Apollo lunar missions and the 50th anniversary of the first of the six Apollo Moon landings.

I was responsible for the overall base design and the electronics using professional CAD packages to convey my final ideas. Throughout the project I researched materials and their properties such as Regolith, used for radiation shielding to the Ku bands used by astronauts today to make communications back to Earth with investigations into the protocols of 5G.

Submissions needed to:

• propose a commercial activity to be undertaken on the Moon
• design a permanent Moon base capable of sustaining at least 20 persons and maximizing self sustainment
• design a transportation system for carriage of people and materials to / from the Moon on a regular basis
• be based on solutions that have a regard to engineering elegance, efficiency and affordability.

The judges summed up our entry as:

An excellent submission with a bold, innovative commercial strategy thoroughly researched and clearly presented. Attention to detail in proposing engineering solutions was exemplary.

The final entry can be viewed here.

This was our final A3 poster for the presentation day that was unfortunately cancelled.