Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO)

An innovative design concept for a mobile lunar gantry is proposed. A mobile gantry system will provide a key capability that is critical for the development of a lunar base camp. The Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO) concept incorporates inflatable air beam technologies similar to those used for the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project as structural components. The use of air beams, along with tendon-based supports greatly reduces the structural mass and launch volume needed to deliver a mobile lunar gantry system. The basic ALLGO design is fully scalable from a small system for Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) sized payloads to large configurations to handle payloads such as habitation modules. The proposed ALLGO concept is self-deployable after landing on the lunar surface.
An innovative design concept for a mobile lunar gantry is proposed. A mobile gantry system will provide a key capability that is critical for the development of a lunar base camp. The Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO) concept incorporates inflatable air beam technologies similar to those used for the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project as structural components. The use of air beams, along with tendon-based supports greatly reduces the structural mass and launch volume needed to deliver a mobile lunar gantry system. The basic ALLGO design is fully scalable from a small system for Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) sized payloads to large configurations to handle payloads such as habitation modules. The proposed ALLGO concept is self-deployable after landing on the lunar surface. An innovative design concept for a mobile lunar gantry is proposed. A mobile gantry system will provide a key capability that is critical for the development of a lunar base camp. The Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO) concept incorporates inflatable air beam technologies similar to those used for the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project as structural components. The use of air beams, along with tendon-based supports greatly reduces the structural mass and launch volume needed to deliver a mobile lunar gantry system. The basic ALLGO design is fully scalable from a small system for Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) sized payloads to large configurations to handle payloads such as habitation modules. The proposed ALLGO concept is self-deployable after landing on the lunar surface.

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