Lunar Ark - IVAAIU City
Lunar Ark - IVAAIU City
The Lunar Ark Project aims to establish a human civilization data center on the moon, independent of Earth's climate challenges. With data centers on Earth increasingly vulnerable to environmental threats like global warming, humanity needs a resilient backup system. This project envisions a periodically updated lunar data repository, leveraging laser optical communication to transfer critical information from Earth to the moon.
The project integrates robotics, AI, and Laser Optical Communication for construction and operation. Robots and AI will autonomously construct and activate the lunar data center, minimizing human risk during lunar missions. This foundation will pave the way for future multi-planet data infrastructures to safeguard humanity's knowledge.
The prototype data center consists of three major components:
1_Lunar Data Receiving Terminal
Lunar Data Receiving Terminal adapts the Lunar Communications Demonstration (LLCD) Data technology, which transmits digital data in a laser form from the Earth’s surface to the moon’s surface. The data from the earth will be periodically sent to this terminal. The terminal is connected to the Lunar Data Archive to transmit the data from the terminal to the storage system.
2_Lunar Data Archive
Built on a robust Storage Area Network (SAN) system, the Lunar Ark archive features 12 radially positioned data storage wings surrounding the receiving terminal, offering a modular capacity of 1 exabyte. The archive employs a tiered prioritization system to focus on essential updates and maintain data integrity. It houses curated cultural records, scientific databases, educational materials, historical archives, and vital human records. Additionally, it includes environmental data, technological innovations, governance and legal systems, space exploration data, and survival knowledge. Governed by an international cooperative framework, the archive ensures transparency and inclusivity. In critical situations, it can transmit stored data back to Earth, be pivotal in disaster recovery, and preserve humanity's knowledge for future generations.
3_Lunar Construction Robotics System
The Lunar Construction Robotics System consists of a Quadrupedal Lunar Construction Robot, a 6-axis 3D Printing Robot, and an Ion Propulsion System. While doing the construction mission of the Lunar Data Receiving Terminal and Lunar Data Archive on the moon's surface, the quadrupedal robot conducts the primary travel process. When the mobile robot stands at the construction point, the 6-axis 3D Printing Robot completes the building process. Considering the microgravity of the moon's surface, the Ion Propulsion System is attached to the legs of the quadrupedal robot to assist the movement of robots.
The Lunar Ark project will envision a master plan for a multi-planet data infrastructure for human civilizations. It will help humanity to be resilient to the environmental crisis caused by climate change. Even though the world has been facing numerous unpredictable natural disasters on Earth, there can be an independent digital data center on a different planet to avoid critical situations. Even though it is not classified as a planet, the moon will be the stepping stone in this long-term vision. Starting from this closest celestial object to Earth, the multi-planet data archive for humanity will be established.