High-Level Project Summary
As part of this project, we created a noVa that will help us explore Venus, a planet with a very hot weather. I believe that the battery and exterior of the nova is the most important part, as it has a sodium sulfur battery and a silicon carbide(SiC), as well as a cooling system and a camera. The reason for selecting these specific parts is that they work well in heat, particularly silicon carbide. This type of silicon is best known for its ability to resist heat up to 600 degrees Celsius , and this SiC will try its best protecting its exterior. You may wonder how this design can solve our problem? Our problems can be solved in many ways one is sending it to Venus and use the camera to view.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We thought of sending our noVa contained inside a probe, then it will be sent through a rocket ship. As it launches in space, it will be separated by a huge push from the rocket ship itself until it lands on Venus.
Space Agency Data
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Hackathon Journey
Our team had a lot of fun during this specific experience, It was interestingly different. We tried something new and learned a lot of things like research, arrangement of ideas and design (especially, digital art). We learned to work as a team and distribute tasks between us as well. We faced difficulties as we continued, but managed to get through it smoothly.
What inspired us to carry on with this challenge is, maintaining the duration of energy storage system. It was fascinating how we had to critically think about the elements, durability of each items and so on.
We are very happy that we took on this challenge and if we had the chance, we would repeat this experience as many times as possible.
Special thanks to Nssa, Nasa, Bahrain Polytechnic and all the organizers and volunteers who took the time and effort to create such a great competition!
References
Most drawings were digitally drawn by the artist except for our 5th slide is a close up for Venus.
Sony XC-999 Operating Instructions Manual:
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/957205/Sony-Xc-999.html?page=2#manual
Tracking Radar:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/tracking-radar
Types of Cooling Systems:
https://smarterhouse.org/cooling-systems/types-cooling-systems
Space probe:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_probe
Parker Solar Probe:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe
Research On Sodium Sulfur Battery For Energy Storage:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhaoyin-Wen/publication/257005361_Research_on_sodium_sulfur_battery_for_energy_storage/links/5c4c32ca299bf12be3e48dae/Research-on-sodium-sulfur-battery-for-energy-storage.pdf
Tags
#art #teamwork #design #venus #supernova