Analysis of solar array power-mass budget for a sunshade concept—Thesis

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https://webthesis.biblio.polito.it/35076/

Authors

Leonardo Baso

2025

Abstract

This thesis was born as the third thesis of a larger project, a collaboration of the Colorado School of Mines, Boeing and the University of Stuttgart. The previous two theses carried out a feasibility study and a study on the launch systems related to the project, which consists in the creation of a solar umbrella to shield part of the solar radiation and allow the Earth to lower its temperature by 1 degree centigrade, so as to have more time on Earth to find a stable solution to the climate problem. In my thesis work I was involved in carrying out a study on the preferable solar cells to use to create a lunar base that could provide for the self-functioning and self-sustaining of the project. I then generated system engineering models from which to start to manage the final and most important part of my work, which consists of the Power-Mass budget of the entire project, considering the various aspects of extraction, transport, refinement and creation of the solar panels that will make up the Lunar Solar Park using lunar regolith, the existing infrastructures and the launch of part of the perovskite and aluminum panels at the gravitational equilibrium point Sun - Earth Lagrange 1 so that the system can remain stable with small adjustments of trim.

Source: Polito.It