APHRODITE TERRA

Beirut | Exploring Venus Together

Powering a Rover on VENUS for 60 days

High-Level Project Summary

using SOLAR PANNELS and a landing spot on the sunny side of VENUS ,the panel is a triple junction cell, We have to make a solar system on VENUS however we have a lot of difficult factors that can stand as barrier to our solar system so our solution is: Design a system with Solar Panels that have heavy base with specific power that can be produced on VENUS to serve the rover for 60 days, with copper wires and the applicable diameter that the Rover can move on and around.

Link to Final Project

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApSP8vKBwJr4i2AAtWJjqH6N0WeR?e=keVsL5

Link to Project "Demo"

https://1drv.ms/v/s!ApSP8vKBwJr4i18Lk79QXRAvgvBY?e=qsZ9qL

Detailed Project Description

Our project is to design a Solar System Panel on Venus that powers a rover for 60 days ,In our system structure we will be using a triple junction cell, depending on Nasa research 1m2 of panel area on earth can produce 200W however on Venus it is 8.7W .So we need 11.5m2 of panel area on Venus to produce 100W power and which is enough for a rover to work. We can make a panel 5meters length and 2.3meters height by using MPPT controller that is a smart controller for distributing the energy. Finally we should use copper wires with 15mm2 because it has a high melting point and flexible enough for the rover to move around the panel for 400meters diameter.

Space Agency Data

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268472597_Analysis_of_Solar_Cell_Efficiency_for_Venus_Atmosphere_and_Surface_Missions

This is the link that we started our project from, as it is much detailed and it is from which we elaborated our idea Creating a Solar Panel

Hackathon Journey

The Hackathon was the most amazing experience we have ever went through , what we most learned is the team work, collaboration, being serious, respecting time collecting data , researching having the ambitious to change the world and reaching our goal and projects .

We choose this challenge since we have lot of ideas about the solar system and we were sure that this project can resolve setbacks and challenge by a smart design, to discover VENUS.

Finally we would say a big thanks to Mr.Antoine Tannous ,the volunteers, and all the team that worked really hard and helped us 24/7 .

Thanks for NASA for helping us reach our dreams.

References

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1519/venus-resources/?page=0&per_page=40&order=created_at+desc&search=&tags=Venus&category=324

https://www.nasa.gov/exploring-hell-venus-rover-challenge/