SWEET| Scanning for Lifeforms
Scanning for Lifeforms
Sweet Water on Earth and Education Technologies
Summary
Water is the source of life. Blooms and bacteria are affecting the quality of drinkable water, specially Cyanobacteria in African lakes. The idea we have is to build a CubeSate consolation to act as an early warning system to detect bombs and Cyanobacteria that has a very bad effect on humans and the ecosystem
How I Addressed This Challenge
What did we develop?
We developed a concept of a CubeSate consolation that includes 6U each CubeSate and total of three cube satellites. There’ll be the normal Satellite subsystems including the AOCS and Star tracker. Most importantly is the payload which will be a hyper-special imager. SWEET consolation will communicate with three different ground stations on the planet to be Abel to cover the African continent and also could be used for the Latin America coverage
Why it is important?
Clean water Accessibility for everyone equally. Even though it’s the 21st century but people are still struggling to find clear water.
Africa has 67 lakes that are affected by the Cyanobacteria. Until nowadays, the water management institutions are detecting this toxic water manually which effect on the accuracy and the tunnel to the wrong method of warning the population around the lake to stop a seasonal contract with the water because of the flood season is not refreshing the water and makes it a good Invitation to grow toxic bacteria.
There we found a solution to this huge problem that cause death to animals and humans around those seasonal toxic water that could develop bombs over the season
What does it do?
Our SWEET consolation is functioning as an early warning system to detect water blooms that include toxic Cyanobacteria causing terrifying damages on our ecosystem such as fish and elephants. Most importantly is 6 million people in Africa are affected yearly by the Cyanobacteria, moreover, some cases are led to unfortunate death. The SWEET telemetry will be distributed among the water management institutions and WHO to earn the trust of people having contact with this seasonal technical water
How does it work?
Is a CubeSate consolation that will orbit our planet earth on an SSO orbit in distance of 650 km away from earth which would be a Leo orbit. Will create a hyper image with the correct mastermind communication to earth with coded telemetry that could be universal among all institutions that are receiving the required date to determine the blooms with the correct channel wishing the hyper spectral imager payload
What do we hope to achieve? We devolved the CubeSate consolation concept SWEET to give the opportunity to reach human equally to have access to clear clean drinkable water. And avoid 6 million people yearly affected by toxic water with some death cases for children. As well as protecting our animals on the planet earth from space by SWEET
How I Developed This Project
What inspired our team to choose this challenge?
The inspiration part here is to show how could space projects affect our day-to-day life. At the early days of CubeSates we were trying to see its functionality in Space, such as deployment and data transmission. Now we are building a concept of the second generation of the CubeSat which is helping humanity. And nature is the unique aspect that held human beings on the blue planet earth.
What was my approach to developing this project?
My approach is to help humanity with space activity. Drawing the concept of SWEET consolation and coming up with the idea to look after the clean water accessibility
What tools coding languages hardware?
Tools are used now:
- ASTOS simulation program for simulating the orbital actions.
- Regular documentary tools MS Office
- Matlab
Implementation tools for later:
- satellite standard clean room
- simulation lab environment
- CubeSat's development kit and platform
- CubeSat's hardware, that will be applied for the 6 Unit CubeSat
Languages and codings:
- Hyphen
- C++
- Matlab
How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project
This part will be used for SWEET consolation such as ESA or NASA implementation clear rooms and to cover all parts we should also use data that are gathered from a current flying satellites that are used for the Cyanobacteria in Africa. Some Ground stations will be in use for the regular SWEET bump when possible. Also, we could imply our own antennas on the University's roof
Project Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zyoLsv48mk&feature=youtu.be
Data & Resources
scientific papers that has been presented earlier:
- Paper presented at the IAC-16 - SWEET CubeSat - Water Detection and Water Quality Monitoring for the 21st Century
- Paper presented at the IAC-18 - Preliminary system design of A “SWEET” CubeSat.
- Paper presented at the IAC-20 - Applying Geographic Information System for Monitoring of Blooms Dynamics from Space.