A Collaborative, Water-Based Lunar Vision
Day: Tuesday 15 October
Time: 11:25 - 12:15 CEST
Location: Red Hall, Level 1, North Wing, MiCo Convention Centre
Artemis is taking what the world has learned from Apollo and decades of living and working in Low Earth Orbit to return humanity to the Moon and build a sustainable presence there, thereby enabling us to move on to Mars and beyond. At Lockheed Martin, we have formulated a vision for how this future could play out – an “existence proof” or “reference vision” for how today’s technologies, companies, and agencies around the globe could combine to enable tomorrow’s goals for the Moon and Mars.
Our vision is characterized by a nuclear-enabled, water-based Earth/Moon/Mars economy. In this panel, we will hear from a set of international industry panelists on how they are working today on systems that will be part of the future water-based economy, from nuclear to mobility to habitation. This is not a “Lockheed Martin” solution nor an attempt to predict the exact horizon end-state of a robust Earth/Moon/Mars ecosystem: it is instead a self-consistent holistic description of one future.
The heart of our vision is water – essential for life, ubiquitous in the solar system, and with a multitude of uses from respiration to rocket propellant. With the near limitless green power from space-borne nuclear systems in active development today, water can transform our exploration of space by allowing us to “live off the land”. With Earth-independent systems no longer reliant on fossil fuels, we can reduce the cost and complexity of in-space elements, while enabling business cases to close on infrastructure and production economies.
Successful sustainable, long-term human/robotic exploration of the Moon and Mars will require cooperation across myriad nations, organizations, disciplines, goals, and technologies. The goal of our vision is to allow companies, agencies, countries, and NGOs, and academia to explore these collaborations in a representative framework in which “the math works” – where they can “see themselves.”
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