Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Reusable Lunar Vehicle

Beauregard Laurent (1) , Annafederica Urbano (1, 2) , Darien Colbeck , Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez (1) , Joseph Morlier (3)

1 DCAS - Département Conception et conduite des véhicules Aéronautiques et Spatiaux
2 RMIT University - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
3 ICA - Institut Clément Ader

The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will be the successor to the ISS and will be placed around the Moon. To bring crew onto the lunar surface, a lunar lander must be designed and used. This work will present a system design tool for lunar landers which utilizes OpenMDAO, a multidisciplinary design optimization library. Moreover, different mission architectures will be compared independently. As a benchmark, a design for a one-stage LH2/LOX will be produced and compared to an existing design.

Mots clés: Multidiscplinary design optimization; Reusable lunar lander; Architecture optimization

Domaines: Mécanique des structures [physics.class-ph]

Beauregard Laurent, Annafederica Urbano, Darien Colbeck, Stéphanie Lizy-Destrez, Joseph Morlier. Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Reusable Lunar Vehicle. 8th European Conference for Aeronautics and Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS), Jul 2019, Madrid, Spain. ⟨hal-03208794⟩