Cheap Construction Technologies as the Foundation of a Lunar Economy

The article presents an overview of promising lunar ISRU technologies that reduce by orders of magnitude the costs of regolith binding, construction, and the fabrication of structures from local materials. A new approach to the organization of work and the maintenance of automated and industrial machinery is proposed, ensuring the transition from an expeditionary to an industrial model of lunar presence.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-09-24
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22931890
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Heat Transfer and Mathematical Modeling
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Cheap Construction Technologies as the Foundation of a Lunar Economy

Ole Babanin
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Heat Transfer and Mathematical Modeling
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Cheap Construction Technologies as the Foundation of a Lunar Economy

Ole Babanin
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Abstract

The article presents an overview of promising lunar ISRU technologies that reduce by orders of magnitude the costs of regolith binding, construction, and the fabrication of structures from local materials. A new approach to the organization of work and the maintenance of automated and industrial machinery is proposed, ensuring the transition from an expeditionary to an industrial model of lunar presence.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Openalex Percentile: Top 21%
Heat Transfer and Mathematical Modeling
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