I would solicitously recommend you a novella by great late hard SF founding father John W. Campbell Jr.: Planet of Eternal Night.
https://pulpcovers.com/planet-of-eternal-night/
There, the colony on Pluto, and the whole transportation network that connects Inner and Outer Planets, are saved from starvation and disruption largely due to brusque, brave, and inventive actions of a man who never slept in all his life.