Thursday, January 26, 2017

In Russia will produce an analogue of the lunar soil using a plasma installation – Arguments and facts

Moscow, January 26 – AIF-Moscow.

Scientists at the center “Innovative mining technologies” (CIGT) presented an apparatus for production of an analogue of the lunar soil regolith required for testing equipment, which in the future will be able to work on the moon, reports TASS.

Plasma installation GAN-LP showed reporters today, January 26, at the Mining Institute nust MISIS.

Scientists ZEGT developed the device in collaboration with GAN, which manufactures equipment for magnetic pulse processing of materials, Mining Institute and Tomsk University of control systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR).

the Agency said one of the developers of the installation Pavel Larionov, the regolith is similar to that in mineral rocks low abrasion and a large electric charge. GAN-LP will create the equivalent of the earth’s components.

the Journalists were shown two experimental composition of the regolith analogue – grey and black. They were developed in Tomsk and in Moscow.

in February, scientists plan to bring the plasma setup on the performance of regolith of 50 kg per hour. This was stated by the head of TIGHT Pavel Ananyev. Preparations for the serial production of the device.

As told to Vice-rector for innovative activity of Tomsk state University Konstantin Belyakov, the specialists got the idea to fill the satellites from the moon, which developed into the project “Gazprom Space”. To implement this, the necessary technology for the extraction of energy on the moon. The speech, according to Belyakov, is a completely new technology “day after tomorrow”. If you implement this idea was created by the GUN-PL. The presence of an analogue of the lunar soil will help test the technology of production of regolith water required for the manufacture of fuel.

it Also reported that the regolith can successfully sell to countries pursuing their own space programs, for example, in the United States. In addition, scientists are going to cooperate with colleagues from South Africa, Iran and Latin America.

the implementation of the mining space project may take from five to 15 years. “If you start today, there will be the prerequisites for creating the foundations of the leadership of Russia in the field of space services,” – said the press service of the University.

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