Building the moon’s critical infrastructure
Australunar is an Australian engineering start-up installing the Moon’s first pipeline system for the storage and delivery of Oxygen, Hydrogen and Nitrogen.
Australunar proudly collaborates internationally with partners and consultants across industry, academia, and government.
In the decade 2040-2050, up to 100 humans could be present in the lunar south-polar region at any time across a combination of science, mining, tourism, maintenance, and security.
Successful and sustainable lunar habitation requires primary support infrastructure for three elements vital to human activity:
Oxygen supply is the single most critical element required by humans in space and on the moon.
Hydrogen is the fuel of the moon’s future and, together with Oxygen, can supply water.
Nitrogen will be essential to providing long-term breathable air and bio-growth programs.
The Australunar pipeline will contain three separate but intermixable systems, developed and tested to lunar conditions, and conforming to NASA standards and specifications.
The unique design and technology of the Australunar pipeline will represent a significant achievement of Australian scientific know-how and engineering expertise.
Australunar is committed to sustainable human activity on the moon, without it costing the Earth.
Developing the Australunar smart-pipeline
A pipeline is the most efficient mode of gas storage and transfer on the lunar surface. As a ‘high-tech’-‘low-tech’ stable, but not complex, solution to the challenges of critical elements supply, this vital infrastructure, will deliver the most important commodities on the moon in a location referred to as “the most valuable real-estate in the solar system.”
Australunar’s research and development is grounded in ‘forefront-but-achievable’ science and manufacturing capabilities, retaining adaptability to emerging technologies, utilising the unique experience and knowledge possessed by Australian mining and energy companies in outer-space.
The initial stored (Earth-origin) oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen (and their replenishments) will be available for consumption by accessible protocols (including by any individual in an emergency).
Australunar estimates that the first prototype of its Earth-made pipeline components will be TRL 7 and deliverable for testing by 2028.
