High-Level Project Summary
We developed a energy storage system for a space rover that can survive in Venus for upto 60 days. This was a challenging task keeping in consideration the thick and corrosive atmosphere and has the highest temperature among all the planets. We used a radioactive isotope called plutonium and we did the fusion process in a reactor with moderator and rods to control the temperature and also for the insulation we used a layered structure of steel and aluminum to protect the nuclear reactor and LiFePO4 battery as it requires protection in aluminum case. For it's outer boundary we made a layered structure consisting of iron nickel tungsten alloy and a little proportion of nanodioamonds.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We have used memory storage system that is solid state recorder which is a modern way of gathering and transmitting the data in aircrafts and it is also reliable because it has access to large data and furthermore we also used wires that can withstand the high temperature and pressure.
Space Agency Data
https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/mission/spacecraft/parts/command/
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-nasa-electronics-longer-venus-surface.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2017-04-spacecraft-venus.amp
https://phys.org/news/2013-08-rover-explore-hellish-venus.html
https://phys.org/news/2014-12-nasa-possibilities-mission-venus.html
https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/94/plutonium
Hackathon Journey
It was a fun experience in which we learned alot. It also taught us how to examine and analyse data from articles.
References
It was totally our idea. We just took help from the resources mentioned above.
Tags
#exploration, #venus, #aircraft #rover #spacecraft