High-Level Project Summary
In accordance with the specified conditions and tasks, we gave an original answer, characterized by an authentic and realistic background, from which high-quality technical performance organically grows. If we talk in more detail, the project has a whole plot narrative that justifies all the decisions of the character. These technical solutions were presented in detail and qualitatively as 3D models compiled by our team members. As a more distinctive feature that gives importance to our solution is that our team represents virtually the only solution from our country regarding this category. This provides a certain originality due to the diversified culture and mentality of Kazakhstan.
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Detailed Project Description
Our project Colonization Mission “New Appalachians” is a detailed response to theoretical tasks and conditions Outfitting a Mars Habitat: A 3D Print Challenge, which has a certain number of features worthy of your attention. In order to avoid a certain triviality and boredom while listing all completed tasks and conditions, as well as for greater interest while studying all of the above, all information will be presented as a one-day story on behalf of our character, who had a difficult share of performing such a mission.
The sobering vibration of the alarm clock barely pulled her out of her hazy state right after sleep. Taking a deep and somewhat displeased sigh, she jerked herself onto her bed. Of course, it was difficult to call it a bed; rather, it was, although comfortable, but a folding mattress laid on the floor. Therefore, assuming a sitting position, she immediately felt the cool floor with her feet, which spurred her to quickly get up and wash.
Already fully emboldened, she finally remembered what day it was. It could be called a day off, because today, from her duties, she had only a daily workout to maintain body tone and a live broadcast with the Center. After the next monthly report, it will be possible to chat with them and find out the latest news from Earth.
With a pleasant anticipation, she stretched with pleasure, quickly changed into sportswear and went to the training room. Stretching was followed by strength training. To energetic music, approaches and breaks quickly succeeded each other on dumbbells, barbells with bench press, pull-ups and push-ups on the uneven bars. Quickly finishing with the training and still filled with a certain strength from anticipation, she almost imperceptibly spent time in the shower.
Combed, clean, satisfied and happy, she sent a signal to the air with the Center at the appointed time. The signal was received on time and without delay:
- Hello, agent “Mariam”, you can start the report. - the metallic voice of artificial intelligence was heard with a slightly cutting ear echo.
She began immediately, reporting on the amplitudes of tectonic movements typical for this region, on the state of her health under conditions of training to maintain body tone, and other routine details of the report. She spoke animatedly and when she finished, she froze in anticipation.
But after the completion of the report, none of the living members of the Center got in touch, but the metallic rattle of the AI assistant immediately began to cry:
- Agent Ashlynn "Mariam" Collins. On March 18, 2130 according to the Earth calendar, you are assigned - here she made a small pause, and saying “three”, in a completely different voice, she continued - tasks due to the shift in the planned and inspection calendar. Your day off and live broadcast with the Center will be transferred to the same day of the week of the next month, without exception, already given for that period of the day off.
The inscription “AIR IS COMPLETED” flickered on the screen and immediately popped up a list of data for her to perform unscheduled tasks:
- Geological expedition, square 3B_NA_A
- Seismographic expertise type A+
- Report on the state of the greenhouse and plants for the Institute of Botany
Her lively and relaxed face instantly wrinkled, the place of a pleasant lightness of anticipation was taken by heavy bile, and the almost airy one immediately became heavier, as if not three tasks were piled on her, but three stones, each weighing a ton. But despite her certain grumblings and resistance, work was work and had to be done.
Her equipment was in tolerable condition, so she was able to go to the specified square on the rover without undue delay, with everything she needed. Arriving at the area, she grabbed the tablet and gave the order to unload the excavation of the cumulative drill. In fact, it was a concrete block with a hollow inside, completely repeating the shape of the internal capsule of a tank cumulative projectile. It was placed inside the concrete block during printing and rolled with the side with the hole onto the surface to be drilled. Following further instructions, “Mariam” retreated a certain distance along with the rover and held down the explosion key. The concrete block shattered, leaving a thin crater below it, like a needle.
Having issued the appropriate commands, she grabbed a seismograph from a moving rover and set it on the nearest flat surface. In fact, the study of tectonic oscillations of the northern plains of Mars was an additional task, but she was interested in a possible reward and, to some extent, the anomalous topography of the red planet. Of course, I had to work hard to develop an efficient and mechanical seismograph on 3D printers, but the result was worth it.
Setting up a tablet instead of a spinning cylinder of paper, she began to observe the pendulum's oscillations. Today they were remarkably strong. Apparently, it was not in vain that an examination of type A + was received today, lasting about forty minutes. Some scientists suggested that due to the instability of the magnetic field, the internal structure of Mars was seriously different from the Earth's and accumulated in the north, silencing the already weak tectonic fluctuations of Mars and not allowing any serious elevations to arise in the north of the planet. She again launched into memories and theorems obtained during a two-year study at Baikonur. For more than seven earthly months, she has learned to enter into internal, almost philosophical dialogues with herself in order to pass the time. Therefore, she was brought out of deep thought by the rover that had almost come up close.
The half-hour gathering of rocks to study the geological history of the planet ended while she was soaring in her own thoughts. So she went to the funnel and started looking for a bigger stone in the depths of a kind of flask. While she found it and was able to pull it out, the seismographic examination was completed. This small block was to be split under the camera in a communication block for sophisticated geologists and mineralogists.
Having loaded everything that was necessary and checked the presence of a flask with chronologically stratified rocks, she went back to the stations. The more or less corrected mood was spoiled by the crisp sound of a link that had just broken at a much earlier broken wheel. This rover wheel has become a real curse for her. Having gone on the last flight to fill the warehouses of the station with electricity, it broke it in a sandstorm and deprived of professional repairs for the next year, it constantly extended its life with almost artisanal repairs and plastic replacement.
In the end, too high costs for wheel replacement forced Mariam to come up with an alternative in the form of a tracked wheel structure with 32 links. Thanks to this, she could only replace broken links, avoiding expensive replacement of the entire wheel. So she did now, cutting out the fastenings of the split link with a bolt cutter and replacing it with another link from the trunk of the rover.
After a short-term repair, she continued her trip to the base, which ended without unnecessary incidents. Taking off her suit, she immediately went to the work area, where she sorted the tools she had taken along the curtain wall and took a seemingly ordinary shovel. But she unscrewed it and the first part turned into a knife, with which she began to cut the stems of plants. Having quickly dealt with this action, Collins took a photo of a greenhouse with plants in order. Twisting the knife handle from the shovel back, she unscrewed the third handle and attached a hammer-shaped pommel to it.
Having taken everything she needed to the communication unit in the form of photos of freshly cut plant stalks, a hammer and a block from the rover, she could finally afford to devote herself to working in a certain location. Time passed quickly, the report on the conditions of plants and the chronological sequence of occurrence of rocks were written, and the block was split by a confident hammer blow. It was only at the end of all the work that she remembered that there was also a seismograph in the rover.
Hastily changing clothes and unscrewing the lantern built into the next handle of the shovel, she went outside the stations and brought in a seismograph. It was already the middle of the night by Martian standards, but for her biological rhythm it was only the late middle of the day.
Space Agency Data
Hackathon Journey
This journey includes a description of not only a two-day hackathon, but also a certain period of time before it. It is included because of the excessive importance in the full disclosure of our entire, albeit brief, but joint path.
To be honest, we cannot boast of a long-term history of the preparation process, full of creativity and team building since the summer. The history of our team takes a little less than a week. But as they say, what a week.
In general, the application was sent by a member of our team back in the middle of summer. However, due to the workload of the schedule with other kinds of events and, accordingly, the lack of monitoring of the Space App project, he received a notification of participation in the competition on Tuesday evening via email. After this notification, a team was hastily recruited, which included two people capable of tri-modeling, one person versed in the IT field, the actual organizer of the team, that is, the person who received the email, he was designated by us as a Planning Engineer and another person responsible for translating notes and compressed documentation from the “technical” language for the generally understandable human and presentation protection, we designated him as a Documentarian. The fifth member of the team was a junior member of the robotics club, whom we took because of certain unspoken obligations in the spirit of a teacher and a student existing in our lyceum.
In this paragraph, it is just worth talking about the lyceum in which we study and, accordingly, the conditions that it provides and which, accordingly, directly influenced our path. It is quite small and accommodates only 240 students, so there was no special time to recruit a team, and we were well acquainted with the 3D modelers of our school and this played a key role in choosing the category. But still a certain unpleasant aftertaste in the form of being forced to choose a category due to tight deadlines still remained. However, with the relentless implementation and increasing understanding of the uniqueness of such a category, our attitude has changed dramatically. It changed from a somewhat condescending disregard mixed with forced patience, to pure interest, one might say curiosity. For the engineer and modelers, this was expressed in a joint and addictive process of performing technical tasks at a decent level, but also taking into account the possibility of drawing up intelligible documentation. For the documentarian, this was expressed in the possibility of presenting the entire project in a rather interesting way through a full-fledged plot by the end of the first day of the hackathon.
The desire to implement and execute the project, spurred on by the interest and curiosity of the team, seriously motivated us thanks to a kind of challenge, a test of our abilities. Yes, it may well be that if we were more vigilant, our project would have been executed even more efficiently, but a certain race against time, coupled with interest, gave us a unique and invaluable experience.
References
Universal shovel - https://brandshop.gaz.ru/catalog/detail/lopata-skladnayaT
Cumulative drill - Кумулятивно-осколочный снаряд — Википедия Переиздание // WIKI 2
Seismograph - Изучение недр Земли — урок. География, 5 класс. (yaklass.ru)
Tool box - Крепление инструмента на стене: способы, лучшие идеи, изготовление своими руками (krepezhinfo.ru)
Kazakh Yurt -
Tags
#3D, #mars, #redplanet, #space, #colonization, #modeling, #blender, #BIL