DustSentinel-LX — Lunar Dust Ingress Monitoring
DustSentinel-LX is a lunar dust ingress monitoring and containment-control subsystem for habitats, airlocks, suitports, and pressurized rovers. It detects, classifies, and helps contain respirable lunar dust events inside crewed systems.
The Problem
Lunar dust is sub-micron, abrasive, and chemically reactive. Respirable particles pose documented health risks to crew in enclosed habitable volumes. NASA-STD-3001 sets lunar dust contamination limits for habitable atmospheres. Technical briefs call for monitoring, alerting, and operational controls.
Subsystem Capabilities
Detect
Distributed sensing at ingress-critical zones. Multi-modal sensing nodes deployed at airlock thresholds, habitat breathing zones, and rover ingress corridors.
Interpret
Mission-state-aware event inference. Context-driven classification of ingress events correlated with operational state.
Respond
Bounded containment actions and exposure logging. Generates control requests to ECLSS and vehicle systems. Maintains an audit-grade cumulative exposure ledger.
Deployment Environments
- Fixed Habitat — Primary breathing zones, common areas, and crew quarters
- Airlock / Suitport — Threshold monitoring at the primary dust ingress vector
- Pressurized Rover — Mobile habitable volume for extended traverses
- Sample Handling Zone — Contamination-sensitive regolith processing areas
Technology
- Distributed node network at every ingress-critical zone
- Multi-modal sensing: optical counting, light scattering, mass concentration
- Operational-state context from habitat and vehicle control systems
- Deterministic event inference — bounded, testable, explainable
- Bounded response engine with crew override
- Audit-grade exposure ledger for per-volume and per-crew records
Standards Alignment
Built around published NASA requirements: NASA-STD-3001 Vol 2, OCHMO-TB-011 Lunar Dust Technical Brief, and the NASA Lunar Dust Mitigation Roadmap (2024) which includes a Cabin Dust Monitor capability.
Contact
For habitat integrators, rover developers, lunar infrastructure teams, and investors. Request a technical overview or architecture briefing.
Email: tom@charterhcp.com
Website: https://dustsentinel-lx.com