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Project 'V-Battery' Summary

High-Level Project Summary

Project V-Battery provides energy for a surface lander/rover for a Venus mission that will last at least 60 days. We designed this battery special for a lot of reasons. For example; heat, pressure, radiation, atmospheric issues, and more. V-Battery is capable of overcoming these problems and surviving on Venus. We used different materials from different elements to provide this durability to the battery. Batteries on shuttles are very important because of the number of bad conditions that space and the planets bring with themselves.

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SMFPHhJi1tV0xhu3G_oRhkZ2aaBPetjD/view?usp=sharing

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XMXAyg5skaq7B6FH7emIqWX4CIR1I_c4/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Our project has the objective of designing a battery system for a Rover that would last at least 60 days on the surface of Venus. The issues that such a project would have to address are largely clear yet still formidable: Extreme heat, crushing pressure, unforgiving atmosphere and much more.

Learning from previous failures and current research; we designed a system working with Venus, not against it, meaning our battery is designed to be fully equipped to handle temperatures equal to and greater than that of Venus. We've also taken a "maximum functionality with minimal weight" approach to designing our battery as reduced mass increases reliability, agility and payload fraction.

Our project offers stability and longevity to any future surface mission to Venus. We used a multitude of resources (online and offline), our creativity and our indomitable team spirit to develop our project, as explained elaborately in the file below.

Link to Project Details:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YCEKQ7eR75kfSMxaAyULzQ0ttGZonsDP/view?usp=sharing

All Project Files:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wWBJvunzRDo9d6f71q4g3i9Y36lzoqFF?usp=sharing

Our Website:

https://hexionfuturegadges.co/index.html

Alternative Link for Final Project: https://youtu.be/ff0Cd5hT4VQ

*The figures we give are estimations. The battery needs to be tested under extreme temperature and pressure conditions to reach exact results.

Space Agency Data

With this resource, we decided on the outer coverings and venus conditions of the project, inspired by this spacecraft. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20351

Thanks to this resource, we developed an idea about the battery suitable for Venus conditions.

https://techport.nasa.gov/view/92914

With this source, we obtained detailed information about Venus.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/

Resource about Venus Surface Deployment

https://techport.nasa.gov/view/96536

We develop our battery (anode, cathode , electrolyte materials) idea with this resource

https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/53889/CL%2320-4439.pdf?sequence=1

Hackathon Journey

This hackathon was a very nice experience for us and we really enjoyed it. Although there were many difficulties for us, we still managed to overcome them. Counting these difficulties does not end, but if we need to mention a few; Our friend was poisoned by Beyti(a Turkish cuisine dish), but as soon as he recovered, he was with us again. Another friend of ours injured his arm and leg when he fell from the stairs, but he continued to be with us even though he was hurt. Despite all this, we developed our project, we thought we were relieved, yet we had to research and design our whole project again because of the feedback we received. As a result of this, of course, we got demoralized, even tension rose sometimes and we had (small) arguments, but these discussions were really fruitful and this time we really managed to come to a conclusion as a project. NASA resources really helped us with this because it was really difficult to find such detailed information from any other source. We at Hexion Team are honored to be a part of NASA Space Apps. We would like to thank our Local Co-Leads and Lead, Go Team members, mentors and jury members who contributed to this entire program.

"Yes, we had difficulties. Per aspera ad astra..."