Bruno in Mars| Can You Hear Me Now?
Can You Hear Me Now?
Trip to mars and your communication
Summary
NASA has been using equipment since the 1960s to communicate with spaceships, the deep space network (DSN), used to communicate with spaceships, but it has its limitations. Voyager probes, which are very far from the earth, use a radio signal and they arrive at the probes very weak. Therefore, NASA is planning to replace it for a laser communication, however it has its drawbacks that they are already working to solve. With that, we will create an application for a device that would capture the laser waves, with that, they could make a direct communication with the land there from Mars, through an application that would be able to send messages, photos and even videos.
How We Addressed This Challenge
The proposed challenge "Can you hear me now?" addresses the theme of communication between Earth and Mars, so we created a mockup to illustrate how this app would work in practice, to be able to communicate with the crew on Mars, which would be done through a laser signal, which would come out of earth, it would pass through a repeater that would stay in space and finally, it would reach a satellite attached to the ship. This new step that we are close to achieving is of paramount importance for humanity and for history, because around 2030, NASA wants to make the first trip with crew to Mars, for that we need a technology that can make this communication of more efficiently by causing the deep space network (DSN), which is done by means of radio waves. For this reason, NASA studies and tries to put into practice this communication via laser, which is 10 to 100 times faster than the one used today, which would be radio frequency. This application would revolutionize the way of interstellar communication, as it would be a much faster and more efficient way of communication, being able to send photos, videos and messages in a matter of minutes, unlike the radio frequency mode, which depending on the size of the data could take days. Through this application that would work for optical communications, it would be a great evolution for all humanity and with that, help in order to communicate with the crew both on Mars or anywhere in the space he is in.
How We Developed This Project
Our team was inspired by the difficulty faced by professionals in the area regarding the sharing of interstellar information. We were very interested in the simple way used in communication between planets and we saw how it could be harmful in a certain way, so we tried to approach some way of evolving this communication system with an idea. As our team is starting to study programming, we still don't have a programming base to be able to create a kind of algorithm or software that meets our project needs, because of that we built a MOCKUP to facilitate the visualization of our idea. We had several difficulties with our idea, because at each step a problem arose, in addition due to the low notion of development we were limited only to a theoretical idea.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
The data from the space agency were of paramount importance, as they contributed so that we could reach our application. Through these data, we were able to notice that new tests were done so that they could transmit a wave of data in a faster and more efficient way, with that it reached an ideal solution, which would be optical communication. Such communication will be of great importance for the future, as communication can be up to 100 times faster than radiofrequency. When we read the data from the space agency, we got a basic idea of what we could do about it, with that, we researched a background about communication via laser, about its difficulties to put it into practice, however its efficiency and speed is something very positive .
Project Demo
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Data & Resources
Leonardo David 2017, Deep Space Comunication Via Faraway Photons, NASA, viewed 04 oct 2020, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6967