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High Earth Orbital Servicing Platform Heliocentric Re-industrialization unit (H.E.O S.P.HE.RE)
Summary
With our earth resources gradually depleting, the only way for humanity to strive without further destroying the earth's natural treasures is to conquer space and its uninhabited planetary bodies. But before we can do that, we need to make space launch vehicles and orbital vehicles cheaper, sustainable, adaptive, and rugged in order for us to be ideally competent to undertake such endeavors that will survive us in the harshness of space. In order to construct such large space vehicles that can make harvesting resources in other planetary bodies possible. A modular, lightweight, adaptive, orbital vehicle must be developed first that will build such industry into earth's higher orbit.
How We Addressed This Challenge
The H.E.O.S.P.HE.RE unit or the High Earth Orbital Servicing Platform Heliocentric Re-industrialization unit. This orbital vehicle concept addresses the basic needs of such orbital vehicle that must be modular, lightweight, and adaptive that can industrialize space for future space faring missions especially the kind of missions where humanity can finally harvest resources to uninhabited planetary bodies. This conceptual orbital vehicle that we designed addresses in how can mankind industrialize space by building and connecting large components of habitational, observational, fabricational modules that are launched separately and are assembled in space.
With H.E.O-S.P.HE.REs, building and assembling these modules can be more efficient, because it is small and agile. The entire shell of the orbital vehicle is made of high heat resistant carbon fibre that has great impact absorbing properties in case of collision accidents. The main power source for these orbital vehicles is solar power making it sustainable on it's own. it also utilizes an existing platform of short range lidar systems that are currently used in programming machines to be autonomous.
It is adaptive for it has a variety of head modules that can be replaced depending on the task ahead. It maybe an assembling head module, a repair head module, or an assistive head module. With it's modular capabilities, the H.E.O-S.P.HE.REs have the capability to take on any task at hand that is needed in space. Launching H.E.O-S.P.HE.REs into space will be much cheaper as well, due to it being octagonal in shape so a number of H.E.O-S.P.HE.REs can be crumped up together and maximize the spacial capacity of the payload bay of the launch vehicle. Due to it being lightweight, launch vehicles that will bring H.E.O-S.P.HE.REs into orbit will need much lesser fuel and thrust to weight ratio making it more cheaper to launch in space.
Earth's resources are gradually depleting and investing into space faring endeavors, financial or technical it maybe will bring us closer to a future where mankind will never have to wrangle each other for earth's natural resources again for we can harvest them indefinitely from uninhabited planetary bodies that already exists in the vastness of space. With the help of H.E.O-S.P.HE.REs it can start up the basis of space industrialization that will thrust humanity in such an endeavor that one day may unite all of us thus eradicating war and poverty once and for all.
How We Developed This Project
Our team is composed of a group of space exploration and space technology enthusiasts that study launch vehicles and spacecrafts then make models of it as our hobbies. And we are inspired to utilize such enthusiasm of ours to contribute to endeavors that are out of this world but is focused to save our world. And this year's 2020 NASA Spaceapps challenge gave us the opportunity to contribute for the greater good in our own enthusiastic way.
In designing such concept of an orbital vehicle to contribute a solution in the challenge that we chose, Our lead designer, Mr. Christian Brent N. Galon used a computer-aided design software namely Auto-Cad to make a digital impression of what will the orbital vehicle look like and how will it address the challenge we chose at hand. Whilst Mr. Deanrey James. A Pono and Mr. Gaus D. Nadela took part in the design layout and technological intricacy of the conceptual orbital vehicle.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Our team used NASA data by incorporating existing technology that NASA has been implementing for a very long time such as the carbon fibre coating in the Hubble Telescope that effectively absorb the impacts of micro-meteorites thus protecting critical components behind the aluminum alloy paneling. We also incorporated feasible NASA In-space telescope assembly research data that gave us an insight in how can we assemble large orbital modules using autonomous space vehicles. We also managed to find a NASA data that showed us how lightweight payloads are far more cheaper and far more revolutionary to launch it in space. Over-all the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program's in-Space Servicing & Assembly or (iSSA) provided us all the NASA data we need into designing our very own autonomous vehicle that can make space industrialization a dream of the past, be the face of reality in the present.
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