{"id":162584,"date":"2023-04-21T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/china-plans-to-build-moon-bases-using-robot-masons-and-lunar-dirt"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T19:23:45","slug":"china-plans-to-build-moon-bases-using-robot-masons-and-lunar-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/china-plans-to-build-moon-bases-using-robot-masons-and-lunar-dirt","title":{"rendered":"China plans to build moon bases using robot masons and lunar dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-plans-to-build-moon-bases-using-robot-masons-and-lunar-dirt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The plan<\/strong>: Ding could play a key role in helping China get its future lunar bases off the ground \u2014 his research team at HUST has designed several potential moon bases and developed technology that could be used to actually construct them on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>One of those is the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0926580518311026?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese Super Mason<\/a>,\u201d an autonomous robot designed to create structures out of bricks. Another is the bricks themselves \u2014 Ding\u2019s team has come up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0926580519312841?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LEGO-like design<\/a> for the blocks, which it proposes to make using <a href=\"https:\/\/repozitorium.omikk.bme.hu\/bitstream\/handle\/10890\/5672\/CCC2018-010.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3D printing<\/a>, lasers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/lunar-regolith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lunar regolith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They could get a chance to see their ideas put to the ultimate test as soon as 2028, as China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/science\/china-wants-start-using-moon-soil-build-lunar-bases-soon-this-decade-2023-04-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> plans to send a Super Mason to the moon to build a lunar brick as part of the Chang\u2019e 8 mission, which is expected to launch in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan: Ding could play a key role in helping China get its future lunar bases off the ground \u2014 his research team at HUST has designed several potential moon bases and developed technology that could be used to actually construct them on the moon. One of those is the \u201cChinese Super Mason,\u201d an autonomous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}