High-Level Project Summary
The challenge is to design an energy storage system that will power a surface lander or rover on the surface of Venus for at least 60 days, so that there is a viable energy storage capability for long duration exploration mission .The main idea depends mainly on the mechanism of Stirling engine or the temperature differences, so the wasted heat on Venus will be exploited to get energy. The main material to make this engine (the big scale) is Titanium and Tungsten which have one of the highest melting point of all metals. The project made up of some recycling materials, but it gets the target where it converts any wasted heat into kinetic energy.
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Detailed Project Description
The main idea is mainly based on Sterling Engine, Why? The reason for this is the idea of Stirling engine which depends mainly on the differences in temperature and maybe it is an ideal solution to exploit any waste heat, and this is the reason why we choose it, because Venus is one of the hottest planets and has a very high wasted heat, so we can use its mechanism to get energy. For the big scale and its system, after many search, we were able to conclude that the vehicle or Zephyr is mainly made of Titanium and has a specific matter to give it a heat resistance, so after another many search, we discovered that the metallic parts of Stirling engine can be replaced with any type of metal, and that is why we can use Titanium to make the engine and developing it. one of the plates of the engine will replaced with Tungsten which is a metal with a melting point higher than Titanium where its melting point reaches to 3414 C, so the bottom plate will be replaced with this metal to make more differences in temperature and making vehicle faster. How to install the engine ? Zephyr will be present in a capsule first, and after it enters Venus atmosphere, it will come apart. The engine can be inserted into the capsule, because after studying the shape that take a little diamond shape, so the wheels and Zephyr itself are suitable to add the engine without modifying the capsule. The engine size is not large, so it is suitable for the vehicle and capsule size. The engine at first will remain shrunk with the vehicle and then it will come down after Zephyr comes down on Venus surface.
Space Agency Data
The main agency to get any data in our research was NASA which gives us all the main points we need in our project. At some points, it required us to search for Venus and Zephyr, which is the rover that will be sent to Venus, so all the information that was taken on Zephyr or Venus were obtained from the NASA website.
Hackathon Journey
It was a truly incredible and wonderful event that taught me a lot about astronomy, space, and the difficulties that living things confront there.
We truly hope you decide to do it again because it was a pleasant experience.
It taught us a lot about the advantages of gaining and sharing experiences, working in a team and under pressure, as well as the vast amount of material we gained in the technical, informative, and technical portion about space and obstacles and how to overcome these challenges.
This obstacle means a lot to us. Our guiding concept in life is to share information, and in this challenge, we discovered that it can have an effect that would help people in the future. Since this field contains a wealth of data and information that benefits people and encourages them to travel to space, as well as informing them of the most recent news and challenges that will be discovered recently and informing them of new and new developments, we anticipate developing an increase in articles with a variety of other researches and studies.
References
nasa.gov
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/automaton-rover-for-extreme-environments-aree/
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