Extraterrestrial applications of solar optics for interior illumination

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Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992lbsa.conf..299e&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Johnson Space Center, The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Volume 1 p 299-303

Physics

Optics

Illumination, Lunar Bases, Lunar Shelters, Sunlight, Optical Equipment, Prisms, Space Station Freedom

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Solar optics is a terrestrial technology that has potential extraterrestrial applications. Active solar optics (ASO) and passive solar optics (PSO) are two approaches to the transmission of sunlight to remote interior spaces. Active solar optics is most appropriate for task illumination, while PSO is most appropriate for general illumination. Research into solar optics, motivated by energy conservation, has produced lightweight and low-cost materials, products that have applications to NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS) program and its lunar base studies. Specifically, prism light guides have great potential in these contexts. Several applications of solar optics to lunar base concepts are illustrated.

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