Illuminating the Lunar Path: Massive 'Lighthouses' Guide Future Moonwalkers
Honeybee Robotics has proposed the concept of LUNARSABER, a massive tower-like structure on the moon that would integrate power storage and transfer, communications, position navigation and timing, and surveillance capabilities into a single infrastructure. Standing nearly 330 feet tall, LUNARSABER could be scaled to over 650 feet to cover a larger area. The structure would be topped with solar panels and serve as a "lighthouse" to illuminate the lunar surface, providing constant illumination and communication with Earth for lunar rovers and other equipment. Honeybee Robotics also mentioned their development of RedWater, a mining system intended to extract water from Mars' subsurface ice deposits.