With the Iridium 9555, the LUNARK team had a connection to “earth” during their expedition while remaining geographically isolated, critical to their well-being and mental health. “One of the biggest contributors to well-being is communication, and it proved to be one of the most influential things in our lifestyle during the simulated mission.” – Sebastian Aristotelis, LUNKARK Expedition Leader Throughout the 100-day mission, Aristotelis and Sørensen were able to send both business and personal communications daily. Iridium’s truly global network is the only service that would reliably work in the utmost northern areas of Greenland, close to the north pole, even in adverse weather conditions. Given the extreme isolation the LUNARK Team would face in northern Greenland, LUNARK reached out to an Iridium partner, Polaris, who assessed the needs of the team and recommended an Iridium 9555 satellite phone as well as an Iridium Connected Garmin inReach. The architects-turned-researchers also needed the ability to stay in daily contact with family members, friends, and followers of the project.
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The central needs for the LUNARK habitat simulation were dependable connectivity for data retrieval, real-time software updates, and reliable communication in case of emergency. With the habitat designed and produced for the 2020 expedition, a key issue remained: communication. Iridium Enables Researchers to Communicate The simulation also sought to combat the monotony and loneliness that many experienced in previous missions. Focusing on design from the inside out, the team built an unfolding habitat only three meters in diameter that could expand up to 750% and featured new approaches to sleeping. While previous exhibitions adapted off-the-shelf items for shelter and had assistance on standby for any issues, the LUNARK exhibition sought to design a habitat that fully considered the humans that would be inside it and replicated the stressful situation of genuine isolation in the extreme environment astronauts would face. To do this, they built a habitat to simulate the living conditions astronauts will experience on the moon. SAGA founders and LUNARK expedition leaders, Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen, sought to rethink the space where those travelers will live and work during their missions. Humans will return to the surface of the moon in the coming years.
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