Virtual Planetary Exploration

Your challenge is to create interactive 3D models of equipment (e.g., planetary geology tools) that future space explorers can use for activities like exploring a planetary surface.

Next Generation Space suit Helmet

Summary

As it is always said "GOOD SCIENCE IS GOOD OBSERVATION" the more valuable data is collected from the experiment the more important the experiment is. Our project is to focus on building a tool that will help to do the best observation not only that but also to collect data in the most accurate way possible as well as changing the old design of space helmets, making it more efficient and effectively helpful for astronauts.

How We Addressed This Challenge

What Did we devolop?

This project is all about more durable space suit helmet which has a durable shield to cover the helmet as glass helmet have high risks of failure, with a screen installed in the inside of that shield with IMX camera sensor which gives the live feed of the outside environment to the screen directly , Velodyne Lidar Sensor which will be getting a detailed scan of the surrounding that will help the astronauts to perform expeditions even in the dark places , Infrared Thermal camera sensor which will give the temperature measurements of the surroundings. These all sensors will be controlled by Raspberry pi or with any other microcontroller which is capable enough to handle the operations of the sensors. All the data that is collected by the sensor will be saved in a storage unit or might be directly relayed to the command center. Even giving a durable shield to the helmet instead of direct exposer of glass the outer shield will be retractable, which will open and expose the glass in case the astronaut wants to observe through his own eyes.


Why is it important?

1)     Much better Modular design

2)     No Dome Structure

3)     High Manoeuvrability

4)     Maximum use or observatory equipment installation (Sensors and monitoring devices)

5)     Very less chance of Instant Cascade Failure (as there are many objects that travel in outer space at the speed of a fired bullet or even faster which might shatter the glass helmet)

6)     More secure and more reliable Design 


Future scope

* Low Donning and Doffing Issues

* Not Restricting overall space suit Design (if this project is actually tested and used in real life work this might help in changing the entire space suit design, which might also reduce the cost of billion dollars required to build a space suit )


What does it do?

It works as an observation tool for space expeditions

It will reduce the risk of the pilots life as due to low gravity the some times even trip of on their head which risks of breaking the glass helmet


How does it work?

it works like an ironman suit helmet


What do you hope to achieve?

The most important thing we tend to achieve from this project is to collect the exact scan and the environment details of the outer space expeditions, which can be used to build the exact SIMULATIONS of the area visited. The importance of collecting data and getting it safely back to earth is that, the space mission data can be used to build exact simulations of the outer space environment which can be used to test on some next outer space mission problems, without actually going in outer space.

How We Developed This Project

The Sci-Fi games which has exoskeleton concept or some human suit best example the HALO game it is completely based on outer space mission

and most importantly THE MARTIAN movie, it also made us think about the colonizing the mars for future, which surely cant be done with the current space suits that are available.


Due to pandemic lockdown we were not able to get our hands on the actual hardware we required to develop the project but


List of IOT Parts Required

1.      Raspberry Pi

2.      Velodyne Lidar Sensor (2)

3.      IMX Camera Sensor

4.      IR Thermal Camera Sensor

5.      High Volume Data Storage Unit

6.      Motor (1 or 2)


List of software requirement




  • Python

And a 3D Printer


These are the bare minimum requirements that will be needed to make a fully functional prototype of this project.


The only difficulty we might face is working with the Velodyne lidar sensor data

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

we referred various data but i will be talking about the data provided about the APOLO mission where there were scans of the landing sites only no other surroundings were mentioned. only the previously recorded data. The most eye catching problem we noticed that the astronauts we not able to excavate the site properly due to the un necessary bulky space suit.

Even the current ARTIMIS project has the same disadvantage of low Manoeuvrability, high doubt about the 2024 ARTIMIS mission that instead of being in the vehicle and observing the astronauts can perform efficient operations while excavation

Project Demo
Data & Resources

Resources provided in the space app challenge like

1.Artemis Geology Tools EVA Exploration Workshop

2.NASA RATS Bring the Moon to Earth

3.The ARTIMIS 2024 space suit details provided on NASA website

Tags
#hardware #apolo #artimis #2024mission #spacesuit #
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.