The DIANA Lunar Base: A Vision for Sustainable Lunar Exploration

The Dedicated Infrastructure and Architecture for Near-Earth Astronautics, or DIANA for short, is an autonomously deployable lunar base concept for a long-duration crewed mission on the Moon's surface. In this video I give an overview of the lunar base. The link to the full base plan is in the video description.

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00:00 Intro
01:51 Location: De Gerlache Crater
02:48 Building the DIANA Lunar Base
04:08 Phase 1: Equipment Arrival
04:43 Phase 2: Base Stabilisation (Crew size: 2-6)
05:14 Phase 3: Nominal Operations (Crew size: 7-12)
05:41 Phase 4: Expansion (Crew Size: 18+)
06:06 Final Base Configuration
06:45 DIANA Modules
10:40 The Electrical Power System
12:03 Thermal Control System
13:12 Life Support System
14:36 ISRU (In-Situ Resource Utilization)
16:43 Communication System
17:37 Final Thoughts
19:12 Outro

Sources:

DIANA Lunar Base Abstract: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/items/8afde684-775c-4c36-8121-f3141d9cb142

DIANA Lunar Base Concept [PDF]: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/5df95247-c825-4716-aa47-edc6e5adf7f6/content