{"id":57304,"date":"2026-03-31T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=57304"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:56:37","slug":"jbis-079-04-0145","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/product\/jbis-079-04-0145\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Science of the Moonhouse project"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><b>CHRISTER FUGLESANG<\/b><b>MIKAEL GENBERG (The Moonhouse AB), VIKTOR PETTERSSON (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), EMIL VINTERHAVC (Vinterstellar AB)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2026.079.0145<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>DOI <a href=\" https:\/\/doi.org\/10.59332\/jbis-079-04-0145\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.59332\/jbis-079-04-0145<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Moonhouse is a small, Falu red, aluminum \u201ccottage\u201d conceived by artist Mikael Genberg and flown in 2025 as a cultural payload together with ispace\u2019s Resilience lunar lander and the Tenacious micro-rover. The artifact was frontmounted on the rover for simple release and documentation. This article summarizes the idea and outreach intent, the practical engineering (materials\/finish, holding-down and release mechanism, and drop-stability), and the analogue-site rehearsals performed at LUNA (ESA\u2013DLR, EAC Cologne). We also outline illumination simulations for the intended site near Mare Frigoris, showing camera stand-off and Sun-relative yaw that would best emphasize shape and color. The mission followed a long, fuel-efficient transfer reaching as far as 1.1 million km from Earth before returning and achieving lunar orbit. On 5 June 2025 the landing attempt ended in a hard landing linked to a laser range-finder anomaly. While the artifact\u2019s final state is unknown, the project demonstrates that small cultural payloads can be engineered to fit tight mass\/volume and operational constraints, and that analogue rehearsals materially de-risk deployment and imaging. .<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Keywords: <\/b>Keywords: Moonhouse, ispace Resilience, Tenacious Micro-rover, Cultural Payloads, Lunar Analogue Testing, LUNA (EAC\/Cologne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":57295,"template":"","meta":[],"pwb-brand":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3911],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-57304","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-2026-papers","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brands":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/57304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pwb-brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pwb-brand?post=57304"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=57304"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=57304"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bis-space.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=57304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}