A Solar Sintering Paver for Building Lunar Landing Pads Sized from Thermal Diffusion and Layer-Energy Bounds

This paper presents the sizing of a surface system for the Moon, designed around a single operating principle and computed from published material properties of its working environment. The headline results are: sintering rate of 0.5 m2/h; advance speed of 1 m/h; thermal energy per square metre of 50.4 MJ/m2. The total mass is 201.6 kg including a twenty percent margin over the component subtotal. Every figure was produced by the accompanying computation script from stated assumptions about density, strength, thermal properties and composition; no figure is asserted without its derivation. Weak points of the design are reported at the same prominence as its strengths, including the conditions under which the chosen principle stops being the right one. This study is a computation, not a measurement: the design is SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED, and no hardware has been built or tested.