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EPQ initial ideas: Astronautical and Aeronautical Engineering
In Space manufacturing
Organ tissue
Techshot
3D printer aboard the ISS
This will allow people with stem cells to get organs printed, we could print tissue on earth but it take about 2 days to set and due to the high level of capillarisation and other intricate blood vessels gravity would crush this before ti si printed but in microgravity in orbit, the tissue can grow
These organs will be worth all too money as a it costs about $100 000 to get a kidney in the USA
ZBLAN
Fiber optic canbling
Applications
Telecommunication
Imaging
Lasers - medical/scientific
Can selll for up to $1000 a meter
Semiconductive material
Gallium arsenide
Aluminium Gallium arsenide
Sillicon carbide
Propultion rockets
SpaceX
Falcon 1
Falcon 9
Faclon heavy
Crew dragon
Dragon
RocketLab
Apollo program
EM drives
Voyager 1
Satellites
Applications
Communications
TV
Radio
mobile communication
Satellite internet
StarLink
12000 sanctioned by the FCAA
Shiney disrupting astronomers
Could this be a problem
Blue Origin
IOT
Photography
Astrology
Hubble
The replacement :Webb
Why is Webb better than the Hubble
Costs
Learning more about space by taking photos
Photos of Earth
Google maps
Weather
Met office
Machine learning of the weather to predict weather patterns
Cartology
Navigation
GPS
Ran by the US govemrent
Should the US tax payer have to pay for the maintenance of GPS
Created by the US Navy
Military satellites
Russia made a Space gun that would shoot ammo in space during the Cold War
Spying on military bases
Making spy planes like the U2 obsolete
Does satellites make spy planes obsolete
As anyone can pay to get a satellite photo of anywhere on the earth could this be a risk to national security
Types of satellites
natural
The moon
Artificial
Satellites such as the ISS, communication satallites and cube sats
Amount of satellites
5866 total satellites
3200 junk
EDDIE's
These are satellites that travel through orbit finding space debris and old satellites so that they can be thrown down to earth and taken out of orbit, this reduces the chance of space debris colliding and makes more space.
2666 operational
61% communication satellites
27% earth observation
3.63% GPS and navigation
3.26% tech Development
0.33% unknown
Is this junk dangerous
Should there be more regulation required to launch satellites
Cube sats
These are very small and hard to track are these dangerous in space could they cause a collision
Future satellite launches
2298 satallites where launched between 2009 and 2018
the predictions of satellite launches between 2019 and 2028 is predicted to increase 332% with 9935 being launched however, SpaceX plans on launching 12000 for starlink
is this increasing a problem
Space mining
Where
The Moon
Materials
Iron
Titanium
Aluminium
Sillicon
Calcium
MAgnesium
What resources are on the moon and how could we mine them
Mars
materials that have been found on mars
lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, niobium, molybdenum, lanthanum, europium, tungsten, and gold have been found in trace amounts.
Does mars have the resources to mine to sustain a human colony
Asteroids
Materials
This varies from asteroid to astroid
The most expensive astroid we have currently found is called Davida
Worth 26.99 quintillion dollars in todays market
It would really be worth that because it would crash the price of the commodity as supply would increase so much
How could Davida be mined
Space colonisation
The Moon
Water
This can be used for fuel to power rockets that would like to get to other planets such and the mars
Stepping stone the outer solar system because of the reduce ed gravtiy. This reduces the escape velocity required to get out of orbit.
Radiations since there isn't any Ozone layer this can harm people living on the moon
Therefore housing would have to be made to reduce radiation
Housing requirements to live on the moon or mars due to th e increased levels of radiation
Mars
Radiation
The same problem experienced on the moon would be experienced here.
IS there a way to reduce the amount of radiation on mars so that humans can live on it
Water
Water can be Brocken down and used for fuel but it also required for humans to live and colonise mars
Curiosity rocver finding water on mars
The space station
The ISS
Valery Polyakov
Has the record for spending 438 days in space
However he had alot of health problems with staying in space this long for example his legs swelling up and causing huge amounts of discomfort
To live in space it would require gravity for humanity to stay in space for prolonged periods of time.
An esample fo this would be be the gateway project based on Von Breun space station concept
Research going on on the ISS
There are too many for me to name but some of the ones I find more interesting
3D printing
Cell growth
Organ tissue techshot
Improving semicondutors with nanoffibers
A cosmic ray detector that hunts for dark matter particles cost $2 billion
Countries aboard the ISS
United States - NASA
Russia - Roscosmos
Canada - CSA
Japan - JAXA
Europe - ESA country members include:
Belgium
Denmark - DNSC
France - CNES
French version
English version
Germany - DLR
German version
English version
Italy - ASI
Italian version
English version
Netherlands
Norway - NSC
Spain - INTA
Sweden - SNSB
Swedish version
English version
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Took 10 years to build
30 missions to assemble
It cost $150 billion USD to build
SkyLab
Tiangong 2
Alternative Methods of getting into space
Space Elevator
A long cable that its attached to the ground that goes alll the way up into space anywhere objects can be lifted up into space on it
This sin't practical however, as we currently don't have a material strong enough to the make the cable and therefore it would be useless as it would break
Sky Hooks
H.A.S.O.L
X43 - NASA test that used Scram Jet engines to get the space craft to Mk 10
Boeing have also developed it
This is sued in conjunction with a skyhook to get the payload to the bottom of the skyhook
IT would need to go about MK14
This is a long cable that can be usied in orbit to transport space crafts and onbjects into orbit or space
ESA have tried it and NASA have looked into it before
Orital ring
This sis a big ring that would go around the earth and then would use electron magnets to propel and space craft into space.
This is not possible yet either as we do not have a material strong enough to hold the force put onto the ring unless it would spin, however if it broke it would be very dangerous and it would require a vast amount of money , captial and factors of production to produce.
Types of propulsion engines
Scram Jets
Capable of up to Mk 14
Ram Jets
Capable of up to Mk 8
Turbo fan jets
Capable of up to Mk 4 or 5
Rockets
Varys on the rocket
Vacum cone