Spare Parts Storage
Climate-Controlled Spare Parts Storage Vault
The climate-controlled spare parts storage vault is a 100-cubic-meter enclosure designed to protect electronics, polymers, and precision parts from degradation over decades of lunar operations. Shielding sensitive components from external vacuum and temperature extremes, the 500-kilogram structure maintains a humidity-controlled inert atmosphere stabilized between 15 and 25 °C while drawing 200 watts of power. It integrates aluminum shelving with RFID readers for robotic inventory retrieval, supporting an operational lifetime of 50 years and a mean time between failures of 500,000 hours.
Climate-controlled storage vault preserving spare parts (electronics, polymers, precision parts) against degradation over decades.
Purpose
Climate-controlled storage vault preserving spare parts (electronics, polymers, precision parts) against degradation over decades.
Context
Child of L2-MNT-SPARE within the Lunar Ark system
Principles
- ▸Thermal control to 15-25 C
- ▸Humidity-controlled inert atmosphere
- ▸RFID inventory integration
- ▸Robotic-accessible shelving
- ▸Long-mission preservation
Typical implementations
- ▸ISS spare parts vault heritage
- ▸Industrial climate-controlled warehouses
- ▸Aerospace AIT facility storage
Lunar considerations
- ▸Climate control protects shelf life
- ▸Robotic retrieval via L1-ROB
- ▸Long-life inert atmosphere
Specifications
Functional
| primary function | Climate-controlled storage vault preserving spare parts (electronics, polymers, precision parts) against degradation over decades. |
| capacity m3 | 100 |
| temperature c | 20 |
Physical
| mass kg | 500 |
| materials | Aluminum shelving, Inert atmosphere, RFID readers |
| vacuum compatibility | True |
Operational
| power consumption w | 200 |
| thermal range c | -40, 70 |
| lifetime years | 50 |
| mtbf hours | 500000 |
Interfaces
Provides
- Physical storage of inventory
- Spares accessible for retrieval
Requires
- Climate control
- Robotic retrieval
Cite this entry
Lunar Ark Codex. "Spare Parts Storage" (L3-MNT-SPARE-STORE). Retrieved 10 September 2026, from https://lunarark.com/entry/L3-MNT-SPARE-STORE
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