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AssigneeBlue Origin Manufacturing, LLC
InventorsPatrick Michael McGarey, Lauren Thomas Sagan, Jesse Dylan Tarnas
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A method and system is presented for placing and burying a conductive material, such as a wire, in lunar regolith. The method may include excavating a trench, placing the conductive material in the trench, and subsequently backfilling the trench to bury the conductive material. The system may include an excavation plow, a reverse plow, and a conductive material dispenser. For example, the excavation plow may remove regolith out of the lunar surface to form a trench. The reverse plow may bury the conductive material with the regolith by refilling a portion of the trench where the conductive material has just been placed. In some embodiments, the conductive material dispenser may be configured to dispense a molten conductive material that is cast in place in the trench to form wire. In other embodiments, the conductive material dispenser may be configured to dispense a prefabricated wire from a spool.
A method for placing wire in lunar regolith, the method comprising:
A buried-wire placement (BWP) system configured to operate on a moving vehicle, the BWP system comprising:
A buried-wire placement (BWP) system configured to operate on a lunar vehicle, the BWP system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.