NASA Transformers concept:
NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program is develop a way of bringing light into extreme environments using mobile robotic mirrors called TransFormers
In terms of scale, modeling suggests that you could power a rover 10 kilometers into a deeply shaded lunar crater with a single TF robot holding a mirror about 40 meters in diameter. Reflecting about 300 watts per square meter. Several of these rovers could help support an IOC Base.
This animation shows this concept in action. I aim to upload several such animations in the coming weeks.
The main concepts shown in this storyboard are
Lunar Comms Relay: Various concepts including LLCD:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...
NASA: TransFormers for Lunar Extreme Environments : https://www.nasa.gov/feature/trans-fo...
livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2016/videos/133764483
This is an early storyboard for 2017 animation project with students from Edinburgh College of Art, and reused material from past GCU project
Music is by Stellardrone: https://soundcloud.com/stellardrone/
This is a storyboard for the first stage, of a larger animation project which aims to visualise various NASA and Commercial concepts which could be used to return humanity to the Moon.
