38results about "Extraterrestrail material mining" patented technology

A mechanical arm mechanism of a lunar surface sampling device, the drive shaft is fixed on the bracket, the left end is connected to the motor, the left and right worms are installed on the drive shaft, the contact end of the worm has a support plate, and the non-contact end of the worm is respectively fixed on two On the outer ring of the one-way overrunning clutch, the inner ring of the overrunning clutch is fixed on the transmission shaft, the main shaft and the transmission shaft are vertically installed on the bracket, the left worm gear is connected to the main shaft and meshed with the left worm, and one end of the right worm gear is supported on the bracket , the other end of the right worm gear is connected to the first connecting rod through the eccentric shaft, and the right worm gear meshes with the right worm; The upper sliding sleeve is connected with the main shaft; the upper and lower sleeves are installed on the main shaft, and the upper sliding sleeve can rotate around the main shaft; Relatively rotatable; the lower sleeve is connected with the other end of the first connecting rod.

A novel corer and grinder apparatus suitable for interplanetary travel and extraplanetary operation is disclosed. The corer grinder composes a claw element attached to a shaft coupled to a motor. A second motor compresses a spring forcing against a hammer unit that constitute the majority of the unit's mass. On release the energy stored in the compressed spring converts into momentum of the hammer unit that strikes against the claw element releasing the impact energy directly to the cutting end for cutting. The direction of the energy released is modified by an impact platform to produce a horizontal chipping action to aid cutting. The claw element further comprises a pair of semi-cylindrical claw elements that separate upon rotation of the shaft in a first direction, easing collection of core samples. The semi-cylindrical claw elements join upon rotation of the shaft in the opposite direction, thereby grasping the core sample during removal from the material being sampled. Operation of a third motor during rotation of the shaft extends and orbitally moves an X-Y table that permits the corer grinder to operate as a surface grinder over a relatively large surface area. Floating couplings of the claw elements minimize the transmission of vibration to internal elements of the corer grinder.

A process for the production of useful materials to sustain manned space missions on Mars, as well as the kit of materials and apparatus for implementing the same, is described. Said process uses as raw feedstock only natural resources available in-situ, namely Mars atmosphere and regolith. The kit allows to implement the process of the invention by providing all materials and apparatus that will be used on the Martian soil.

The invention discloses a Mars exploration device which comprises a vehicle body, crawler-type walking mechanisms, a mechanical arm and a storage cabin capable of automatically opening, wherein both sides of the vehicle body are provided with the crawler-type walking mechanisms; the front of the vehicle body is provided with the mechanical arm; and the storage cabin capable of being automatically opened is arranged on the vehicle body. The device has simple structure and convenient use, is suitable for flexibly running in desert and harsh desert of foreign planets and overcomes the defects in the prior art. The adopted crawler-type drive can be used for exploring and sampling operations in extremely rough foreign planet environments; meanwhile, a sample driller is also adopted, and when an exploration sample is too large to carry, the sample driller can be used for drilling a sample for research.

A process for manufacturing physical assets for civil and/or industrial facilities on Moon, Mars and/or asteroid, as well as the kit of materials and apparatus for implementing the same. Such a kit allows in fact to implement the process of the invention by providing all materials and apparatus that will be applied on Moon, Mars and/or asteroid, thus advantageously and significantly reducing, either the costs and the volume and bulk of the materials. The process comprises the steps of enriching the regolite present in the soil in ilmenite or in iron oxides, then mixing it with aluminum powder and sending the resulting mixture to a reaction chamber for the obtention of constructive elements.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a mining method and relates to the field of mining engineering. The mining method includes arranging each open-cast mining front according to an underground mining wall-type working face mode, simultaneously advancing the fronts towards two sides from an opening segment ditch, arranging the fronts to be parallel to the opening segment ditch and to be symmetric relative to the opening segment ditch, and arranging crossheadings on two sides of each front; mounting a coal cutter on the chute of a scraper conveyer, wherein the coal cutter can move relative to the scraper conveyer; using the coal cutter to cut lunar soil in a reciprocating manner, and using a push device to allow the scraper conveyer to move transversely; continuously conveying the lunar soil out of a mine pit through the scraper conveyer and a belt conveyer in each crossheading. The mining method is capable of effectively solving the problem that an existing mining method is not applicable to low-gravity lunar mining, and the method is applicable to the mining fields such as mining and lunar mining.

The invention provides a moon self-tunneling core-drilling robot device and system. The moon self-tunneling core-drilling robot device comprises a suspending part, a supporting drive assembly and a core-drilling assembly, which are sequentially connected, wherein the suspending part is connected to a suspending rope; while the moon self-tunneling core-drilling robot device performs core-drilling,the supporting drive assembly abuts against a through hole inner wall of a moon self-tunneling core-drilling robot system or the inner wall of a drilled hole of a moon layer, so that the supporting drive assembly and the moon self-tunneling core-drilling robot system or the moon layer are relatively fixed; and the supporting drive assembly drives the core-drilling assembly to drill a moon core which is accommodated in the core-drilling assembly. In this way, the supporting drive assembly abuts against the hole wall for fixing, so that the supporting drive assembly can drive the core-drilling assembly to drill a moon surface and extend into the moon layer, and therefore, in-situ great-depth core-drilling is conveniently accomplished on the premise of no external shaft pressing power device.

The invention provides a drilling tool device and drilling method for obtaining an extraterrestrial celestial body surface water source. According to the device provided by the invention, a drilling bit is drilled in and surface-layer soil is drilled through a blade; focused sunlight is transmitted to a cavity in a drilling rod by utilizing a light-guide mirror surface, so that the supply of energy source heat is realized; the blade has a fin function to transmit the heat to the periphery to drill the soil, and water steam volatile matters are produced; then the water steam volatile matters enter the cavity of the drilling rod through an air hole of the drilling rod, are gathered on a water steam outlet and then are discharged, so that the extraterrestrial celestial body surface water source is obtained. The drilling tool device provided by the invention has the advantages of relatively simple structure, relatively low weight and power consumption requirements and high function integration level, and the extraterrestrial celestial body surface water source can be effectively obtained.

Decades of research and development have been invested in various forms of railguns, coilguns and mass drivers. See http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of Contents1.html

Research at the Space Studies Institute in the 1980s refined the mass driver concept. See http://ssi.org/introduction-to-research/research-report/# mass-driver-iii

The innovation of the Electromagnetic Regolith Excavator is to eliminate the use of a bucket or other container that is accelerated by the magnetic fields. Instead, magnetic particles in the regolith itself (nickel-iron grains and/or magnetite) are put into motion and they carry along with them a to-be-determined fraction (perhaps all) of the co-resident non-magnetic regolith particles.

The Electromagnetic Regolith Excavator applies only attractive forces: no anchoring is required. This enables robotic and crewed spacecraft to safely collect surface material from asteroid targets that may be tumbling. Because no hard connection is required, no strong hazardous forces can be imparted to the collection apparatus aboard the spacecraft.

Cosmic ray and muon-catalyzed micro-fusion electrical generation provides electrical power for mining operations, including any asteroid habitats and mining equipment. The micro-fusion generator systems deploy deuterium-containing fuel material as a localized cloud interacting with incoming ambient cosmic rays to generate energetic fusion products. Dust or other particulate matter in the fuel material, in the localized cloud, and in the space surrounding the asteroid being mined converts some cosmic rays into muons that also catalyze fusion. The fusion products drive turbines to facilitate the electrical generation.

The invention provides a lunar water ice in-situ heating mining method, and belongs to the technical field of lunar resource and energy mining. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, extracting physical property parameters of water-containing icy lunar soil in a target mining area, then calculating the pressure intensity of water vapor in a trapping cover and the water-ice collection rate at different heat-conducting rod temperatures during stable production by utilizing a water vapor trapping cover in-situ collection model, determining the optimal mining temperature of water ice, carrying out numerical solution on the temperature of lunar soil in the water ice thermal mining process based on the extracted physical property parameters, and finally calculating the optimal number of heat-conducting rods for water ice mining within the given maximum temperature rise time according to the obtained optimal mining temperature of water ice and spatial and temporal distribution of the temperature of lunar soil under different numbers of heat-conducting rods. According to the method, the water ice mining scheme of the lunar polar region is optimized, and a foundation is laid for in-situ utilization of lunar resources in the future.

Disclosed are a method of flying on the moon and a device for flying using the method. A medium on a surface of a moon and a medium accelerating module are used in the flying method. The medium is transferred into the medium accelerating module, accelerated by the medium accelerating module, and ejected out of the medium accelerating module by using a power supply. A counterforce is generated in accordance with the momentum conservation, and the counterforce overcomes the lunar gravity and drives a load to take off. The method is suitable for the environment of the moon where flight by means of atmospheric buoyancy is impossible due to the shortage of atmosphere.

The invention discloses a high-efficiency uniform mining system and an application method of ilmenite and helium-3 resources. The high-efficiency uniform mining system of the ilmenite and the helium-3 resources comprises a uniform adjusting mechanism, a thermalization mechanism, a gas collection mechanism and a mining and transporting mechanism; the uniform adjusting mechanism is provided with a mine chamber, a mine column, a goaf and a sealed sleeve; the thermalization mechanism is provided with an electromagnetic thermalization cylinder and an electromagnetic thermalization branch pipe; the gas collection mechanism is provided with a gas collection tank and a gas collection hole; and the mining and transporting mechanism is provided with a mining machine, a transfer loader, a universal eiking machine and a magnetic telescopic tape conveyer. According to the high-efficiency uniform mining system and the application method of the ilmenite and the helium-3 resources, electromagnetic radiation heating is conducted on surrounding lunar soil by being centered on the gas collection mechanism through the electromagnetic thermalization cylinder in the thermalization mechanism, negative pressure collection is conducted on output gas by utilizing the gas collection tank in the gas collection mechanism, the mining and transporting mechanism conducts extraction and conveying on the ilmenite, the uniform adjusting mechanism cooperates efficiently, and finally a complete mining system which is highly mechanized and unmanned is formed, and the purpose of high-efficiency and uniform mining of the ilmenite and the helium-3 resources is achieved.

A moon-based in-situ condition-preserved coring multi-stage large-depth drilling system and method therefor. The system includes a rotary plate provided inside a lander, an in-situ condition-preserved coring tool provided on a surface of the rotary plate, a space frame provided on a surface of the rotary plate, a working platform provided on a top of the space frame, a mechanical arm provided on a bottom surface of the working platform, and a camera provided on the bottom surface of the working platform, the mechanical arm is fixedly connected to the working platform, and the camera is fixedly connected to the working platform. By controlling the mechanical arm to place the in-situ condition-preserved coring tool on the moon surface, and using the in-situ condition-preserved coring tool to sample the lunar soil on the moon surface, the coring operation problem of the lunar soil is solved.

The invention provides a moon water ice mining method. The moon water ice mining method comprises the following six steps of firstly, detecting a position with rich water ice in a pit through a neutron spectrometer positioned in a movable base station at the edge of a shadow pit, then, launching a meteorological blasting bomb to a detected position, and then, launching an anti-escape cover which can be unfolded in the air to a blasting position, the anti-escape cover is covered on a blasting pit, a condenser in the base station is conducted and converging sun is shone into the blasting pit through the anti-escape cover, the water ice sublimated by sunlight heating is collected by a cold sink collector in the anti-escape cover and can be collected into the base station after collection. The technical problem that in the prior art, water resource exploitation can not be achieved in an extreme low-temperature vacuum environment of a moon is solved, and the moon water ice mining method is provided. According to the moon water ice mining method, the in-situ large-scale, high-efficiency and pollution-free moon water ice can be exploited in situ on the moon.

The invention provides a low-power microwave coring machine suitable for lunar rock and a using method. The low-power microwave coring machine comprises an equipment platform, wherein a supporting frame front plate and a supporting frame rear plate are slidably mounted on the equipment platform; the rear end face of the supporting frame rear plate is connected with the front end of a microwave generator mounted on the equipment platform; the rear end of the microwave generator is sequentially connected with a fixed waveguide, a rotating waveguide, a power divider and a drilling barrel; a high-precision sliding ring structure is mounted on the drilling barrel; gear clamping sleeves are arranged on the outer walls of the rotating waveguide and the drilling barrel and meshed with a transmission gear mounted on a rotating shaft; the rotating shaft is connected with a rotating driver; the rear end of a tunneling driver is fixed on the equipment platform; and the front end of the tunneling driver penetrates the supporting frame rear plate to be connected with the supporting frame front plate. Synchronous movement of a microwave system and the drilling barrel is realized, hard rock is drilled under the condition of meeting equipment miniaturization and low power, and the problems of failure in drilling and jamming of a drill can be avoided; through multi-port millimeter wave irradiation of the power divider, complete breaking of an outer ring of a rock core is realized while the rock core is not broken.

The invention provides a lunar helium-3 resource in-situ exploitation heat release temperature determination method, and belongs to the technical field of lunar resource exploitation. The method comprises the following steps: selecting ilmenite as a representative mineral of lunar helium-3 resource occurrence, carrying out numerical solution by utilizing an established physical model of lunar mineral occurrence helium-3 resource, and establishing high-vacuum and low-gravity physical conditions to conform to the actual environment of the moon; analyzing the evolution law of the release amount and the release rate of the helium-3 resource in the ilmenite along with the heating temperature and the heating time, and finally, comprehensively considering the release rate and the release amount of the helium-3 resource in the lunar soil to determine the optimal heating temperature for in-situ mining of the lunar helium-3 resource. According to the method, the energy consumption ratio during in-situ mining of lunar helium-3 resources can be reduced.