• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.373-384
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• 2017

A new era with the $4^{th}$ Industrial Revolution certainly brings new opportunities for human to explore human's activities outside of the Earth. After the Apollo program, exploration for lunar resources and establishment of lunar base seem to be in reality. This could be due to new findings by the LCROSS and LRO proving the advanced scientific development and new scientific results about the moon from Asian countries including China with Chang'E missions. It is expected that fossil fuels will be in shortage in the near future and at this time, Helium-3 could be an energy resource as a replacement of the fossil fuels. At present it is well known that countries like Russia, USA, and Europe will continue to investigate on lunar exploration especially with landers toward future human activities on the moon to establish a lunar base. With this point of view, it is important for human to understand lunar resources and prepare for prospective utilization of lunar resources. This review paper considers on a point of view in both lunar resource exploration and establishment of lunar base.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.669-676
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• 2018

As the Moon's scientific, technological, and economic value has increased, major space agencies around the world are leading lunar exploration projects by establishing a road map to develop lunar resources and to construct a lunar base. In addition, as the lunar base construction requires huge amounts of resources from the Earth, lunar in-situ construction technology is being developed to produce construction materials from local lunar resources. On the other hand, the characteristics of lunar topography and resources vary spatially due to the crustal and volcanic activities inside the Moon as well as the solar wind and meteorites from outside the Moon. Therefore, in this paper, the geospatial analysis of lunar resource distribution was conducted to suggest regional consideration factors to apply the lunar in situ construction technologies. In addition, the lunar topographic condition to select construction sites was suggested to ensure the safe landing of a lunar lander and the easy maneuvering of a rover. The lunar topographic and resource information mainly from lunar orbiters were limited to the lunar surface with a low spatial resolution. Rover-based lunar exploration in the near future is expected to provide valuable information to develop lunar in situ construction technology and select candidate sites for lunar base construction.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.144-152
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• 2018

Lunar exploration, which was led by the United States and the former Soviet Union, ceased in the 1970s. On the other hand, since massive lunar ice deposits and rare resources were found in 1990s, European Union, China, Japan, and India began to participate in lunar exploration to secure future lunar resource as well as to construct a lunar base. In the near future, it is expected that national space agencies and private industries will participate in the lunar exploration together. Their missions will include the exploration and sample return of lunar resources. Lunar resources have a close relationship with the lunar in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). To construct a lunar base, it is inevitable to bring huge amounts of resources from Earth. Water and oxygen, however, will need to be produced from local lunar resources and lunar terrain feature will need to be used to construct the lunar base. Therefore, in this paper, the global trends on lunar exploration and lunar construction technology are investigated and compared along with the ISRU technology to support human exploration and construct a lunar base on the Moon's surface.

• Aerospace Industry
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• v.40
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• pp.58-61
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• 1996

인류는 머지않은 장래에 달과 화성에 기지를 건설하게 된다. 우주공간의 교통.수송도 동시에 정비되고 그 수단도 장족의 진보를 보일 것이다. 그리하여 인류는 달.화성을 기지로 다시 더먼 우주로 갈 것이다. 그중 결정적 열쇄가 될 우주수송기술을 살펴본다. 그 첫째 방법이 화물을 발사하는 대포형 마스드라이버가 될 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.828-832
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• 2008

In 2004, The U.S president Bush announces space Exploration Vision included in Lunar outpost plan. Following the Space Exploration Vision announced by Bush, NASA made Construction Roadmap and studied space construction varietly to construct Lunar Outpost in 2025. The purpose to construct Lunar outpost is to develop space science and hitech industry and to secure the lunar materials. Especially, Lunar has more than 5billion ton He-3. In this reason, The countries advanced in Space Industry like U.S., Japan, Europe and China is studying space construction to mine Lunar materials and shelter to live. In this paper, We will make definition and necesarity of space construction and research Space Construction research trends to use for the preparation of Korea's space construction roadmap.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.26 no.12
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• pp.8-11
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• 2010

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.49-55
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• 2023

The discovery of lunar ice in the lunar polar region has fueled international interest in in situ resource utilization (ISRU) and the construction of lunar habitats. Unlike Earth's atmosphere, the Moon presents unique challenges, including frequent meteoroid impacts, direct exposure to space radiation, and extreme temperature variations. To safeguard lunar habitats from these threats, the construction of a protective shield is essential. Lunar regolith, as a construction material, offers distinct advantages, reducing transportation costs and ensuring a sustainable supply of raw materials. Moreover, it streamlines manufacturing, integration schedules, and enables easy repairs and modifications without Earth resupply. Adjusting the shield's thickness within the habitat's structural limits remains feasible as lunar conditions evolve. Although extensive research on protective shields using lunar regolith has been conducted, unresolved conflicts persist regarding shield requirements. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of the primary lunar threats and suggests a minimum shield thickness of 2 m using lunar regolith. Furthermore, it outlines the necessary technology for the rapid construction of such protective shields.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.859-865
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• 2018

A construction of infrastructures and base station on the moon could be undertaken by linking with the regions where construction materials and energy could be supplied on site. It is necessary to detect craters on the lunar surface and gather their topological information in advance, which forms permanent shaded regions (PSR) in which rich ice deposits might be available. In this study, an effective method for automatic detection of lunar craters on the moon surface is taken into consideration by employing a latest version of deep-learning algorithm. A training of a deep-learning algorithm is performed by involving the still images of 90000 taken from the LRO orbiter on operation by NASA and the label data involving position and size of partly craters shown in each image. the Faster RCNN algorithm, which is a latest version of deep-learning algorithms, is applied for a deep-learning training. The trained deep-learning code was used for automatic detection of craters which had not been trained. As results, it is shown that a lot of erroneous information for crater's positions and sizes labelled by NASA has been automatically revised and many other craters not labelled has been detected. Therefore, it could be possible to automatically produce regional maps of crater density and topological information on the moon which could be changed through time and should be highly valuable in engineering consideration for lunar construction.

• Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.83-93
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• 2021

NASA has a plan for the Artemis manned lunar mission in 2020. In 2030s, not only America but also other countries are considering to prepare for human to stay on the Moon at least for a month and necessary technology is currently being developed. With this plan, the mostly considered thing is lunar in-situ resource utilization. The most essential resources could be water and oxygen for sustain human life on the Moon. These resources are not supposed to be brought from the Earth, and it is economically sensible if they are obtained from the lunar surface. Because oxygen can be used as both oxidizer and propellent when a rocket departs from a lunar base directly to Mars, technology for extraction method of oxygen resource and its utilization has been being developed worldwide. This paper introduces oxygen distribution on the Moon and major oxygen extraction methods.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.39-55
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• 2007

인류는 달을 보며 우주개발에 대한 꿈을 꾸어왔다. 60년대에서 70년대 중반까지 미 소간의 우주경쟁으로 달 탐사에 큰 예산을 들여 마침내 인류를 달에 착륙시켜 달 탐사를 실현할 수 있었다. 이젠 화성에 인류를 보내기 위한 전초기지를 달에 구축하려고 다시금 미국이 달 탐사를 가동시켰다. 이에 따라 세계 여러 나라가 달에 대해 다시 관심을 고조 시키고 있다. 그래서 이 논문에서는 90년대와 최근에 재 시작된 달 탐사위성의 개발동향을 조사하여 기술하였다. 대상 위성 프로젝트는 미국의 클레멘타인과 루나 프로스펙터, 유럽연합의 스마트-1호, 일본의 셀레네, 중국의 창어-1호, 인도의 찬드라얀-1호, 미국의 LRO 달 탐사 궤도선, 러시아의 루나-글로브 위성들의 주요특성과 탑재체, 지상국, 임무궤적 및 달 임무 궤도에 대해 개괄적으로 기술하였다. 기술 특징으로는 위성 제작기술 발전에 따라 경량화에 중점을 두어 위성을 소형화 하였으며, 통신방식에 있어서는 X 및 Ka대역을 사용하여 데이터 전송속도를 현저히 증가 시켰으며, 위성 및 지상의 안테나의 크기를 줄일 수 있었으며, 전기추력기를 사용하여 소형위성으로도 달 탐사를 실현시켰다. 그리고 다른 나라에서 개발되는 달 탐사위성의 개발 예산을 살펴보면 약 1억불 정도이면 소형 급의 위성을 개발하여 달 궤도에 진입시켜 달 과학탐사 임무를 수행할 수 있다고 할 수 있겠다. 따라서 우리나라도 지난 15년 이상 지구궤도 위성을 성공적으로 개발하며 구축한 기술을 바탕으로 달 탐사 위성의 개발에 대한 가능성을 가지고 있다고 본다. 이제 우리나라도 인류의 미래우주개발의 일익을 담당하고자 달 탐사위성 프로젝트를 준비해야한다