AN ARCHITECTURE FOR ELSEWHERE
tecton04
A place to stay. On a world that won’t make it easy.
3D is unavailable on this device. The mission calculations and design controls remain available.
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HABITAT / SECTION A–A
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POWER FIELD
DRAG TO ORBIT · SCROLL TO EXPLORESYNTHETIC SOUTH-POLE SITE / 01
YOUR MISSION, IN PLAIN WORDS
Keep the outpost running for 72 hours.
Choose a habitat and its power supply. See when the battery runs low, then change the design or the crew’s response to a failure.
How to try the two missions
- Design mission: press Play the mission at the top. Follow five chapters from the first outpost to a tested alternative.
- Rescue mission: load the rescue challenge below. Compare doing nothing, pausing optional activity and repairing the panels.
- Read the lowest battery reserve and the time of any power shortfall. Click a mission event to inspect that moment, or export the full record.
The site, material values and failure conditions are illustrative. These missions help explain decisions; they do not establish flight safety.
NEW / MISSION CONTROL
The design is half the story.
A damaged array. A finite battery. Decide how the crew responds — then test that decision on the same 72-hour mission.
This operating case uses a 24-hour ridge shadow, H+18–42. The rescue challenge loads a fixed reference design.
Assumed fault: 32% of array capacity remains. Repair restores 85%; conservation pauses 0.22 kW of discretionary activity per crew member. These are editable-scenario assumptions, not flight procedures.
All three options use identical geometry, crew, shadow and incident timing. Only the response changes. The main chart and dossier follow your selected option.
02 / THE LONG SHADOW
Watch the margin disappear.
Stored energyCabin temperaturePinned design
Drag the mission clock to inspect a moment.
03 / TWINSAFE METHOD
A design. Then 160 different realities.
Vary shadow duration, heat conduction, demand and panel output. Keep the same seed to compare designs on equal terms.
Seed 260908 · no campaign run yet
Each tile is a complete 72-hour simulation.
TAKE THE EVIDENCE WITH YOU
Something to bring to the room.
Save the design, its full trajectory and every assumption. A shared link restores the same configuration.
Read the model assumptions and sources
Research demonstrator. The regolith shell protects a separate pressure vessel; it is not itself modelled as pressure bearing. Geometry, thermal conduction, battery balance and scenario search are calculated. Terrain, recipes and mission conditions are synthetic.
The model uses a 15 m²·K/W insulation resistance, 9 kWh/K interior thermal capacitance, 29% panel efficiency, 78% array derating and 94% charge/discharge efficiency. These are illustrative assumptions, not measured properties. Validation requires material tests, validated thermal models and operational power budgets.
The optimizer minimizes a declared resource index: shell tonnes × 0.018 + storage kWh × 0.032 + panel m² × 0.014, while requiring 12% minimum reserve. It does not estimate money or certify structural or radiation safety. Campaign variation ranges are assumptions, not statistical confidence intervals.
NASA / Moon facts · Luxembourg Space Strategy · Three.js / MIT license