DARPA to study integrated lunar infrastructure
An investigation by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency is starting to create an “analytical framework” to direct the creation of integrated lunar infrastructure over the following ten years. The 10-Year Lunar Architecture, or LunA-10, project was unveiled by DARPA on August 15 and is looking for suggestions from both users and potential providers of lunar power, communications, navigation, and other infrastructure. According to a press release, the agency intends to choose a team that will collaborate on “new integrated system-level solutions that span multiple services” and be offered commercially by 2035. Commercial End State In an interview, Michael Nayak, the DARPA program manager in charge of LunA-10, mentioned how numerous businesses are focusing on different parts of that infrastructure independently. We intend to incorporate such businesses into LunA-10 and create a consortium, he continued. An example of how those ideas may be combined would be a lunar power u...