Design of Mobile Manufacturing System For Extraction of Fuel From Lunar Soil

Open space exploration is difficult to carry out directly from the Earth's surface. Lunar bases, the construction of which is announced by various countries, are considered as transit points for spaceships and spacecrafts heading further to the planets of the Solar system and open space. However, for any movement in the space the energy is required, and the source of the energy is fuel. It is not always advisable and almost impossible to deliver the needed amount of a fuel to the Moon from the Earth. In this paper we consider one of the possible solutions to build a flexible mobile production system for producing of a fuel from the ore, which could be found on the lunar surface. The technology for such reprocessing has already been defined, then, a system is required that will be able to produce fuel and supply spaceships and spacecrafts in an autonomous mode. The specifics and composition of such system are described, the layout of the system was simulated. The calculations of the core resource of the system are provided.