BLOMPOD

With NASA’s Artemis program moving toward sustained lunar operations, and parallel initiatives such as the International Lunar Research Station emerging from China’s space program, the Moon is rapidly shifting from a destination for missions to a landscape for infrastructure.

But with launch mass and payload volume still among the dominant constraints of any lunar mission, inflatable architecture may prove to be one of the most practical spatial typologies for early Moon settlements.
I’ve been exploring this through BLOMPOD — an inflatable lunar habitat concept developed around the payload volume constraints of vehicles such as Starship by @SpaceX, New Glenn by @Blue Origin, and Ariane 6 by @ArianeGroup.

The proposal imagines deployable habitat modules that expand to ~10 m diameter after deployment while fitting within rocket fairings at launch, connect through modular airlocks, and are protected by a ~2 m regolith layer for radiation shielding. Interiors accommodate 1–4 inhabitants and focus on warm, domestic spatial qualities rather than the typical sterile spacecraft aesthetic.
The system emerged from ongoing research into deployable space habitats. After several requests from colleagues working on visualizations and speculative mission scenarios, I made the models available on Gumroad.
Curious how others working on deployable habitats approach the trade-off between launch volume, structural rigidity, and regolith shielding.