High-Level Project Summary
Our project shows the international space station on the earth globe with three.js. In addition, we have developed 3 innovative solutions to protect the ISS from space debris.The first of these solutions is to change the orbit of the space station with the help of thrusters.Our second solution, if the thrusters fail, is to change the position of the space junk by momentum exchange with the help of kamikaze satellites near the ISS.Our final solution, if our kamikaze satellites don't work, is to apply momentum to the space junk by using rockets that are on standby on Earth and to get the space trash off course.You can find detailed information about all these solutions in our article.
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Detailed Project Description
While there are about 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth at the moment, there are also 3,000 dead ones littering space. What's more, there are around 34,000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10 centimetres in size and millions of smaller pieces that could nonetheless prove disastrous if they hit something else. Much more debris – too small to track, but large enough to threaten human spaceflights and robotic missions – exists in the near-Earth space environment. Because both the debris and the spacecraft travel at extremely high speeds (about 15,700 mph in low Earth orbit), even a small orbital debris colliding with a spacecraft can pose big problems. In 2015, Mr. The article written by Dana Whalley includes studies to determine the positions and sizes of space debris on low earth orbit (LEO). While providing location and size data in the project, no anti-collision mechanism development work could be carried out to protect the spacecraft. In the LISK-BROOM article prepared by Claude Phipps in 1994, mathematical model predicts the economical effectiveness of using powerful laser beams for cleaning space junk. The propelling force comes from the ablation caused by repetitive laser pulses. Lasers will use Earth‐based power to de‐orbit waste objects in cooperation with observatory telescopes[5]. In the ongoing project, it is aimed to minimize the possibility of the ISS colliding with a space junk by reducing the rate of space junk in orbit around the world.
Space Agency Data
https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1/satellites/25544
The data was organized using the data of the API.
Hackathon Journey
The main purpose of the proposed project is to design a 3D simulation of the ISS's location speed and routes, It is aimed to prevent the ISS from being damaged by space debris in the sub-earth orbit, and to reduce the formation of more space debris by preventing the satellites in space from colliding with each other.
In this app, NASA asked us to do a challenge about showing the ISS in 3D. Not only that, we also created a few problems about space junk and developed emergency protocols to solve it.
References
[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-space-junk-and-why-is-it-a-problem.html [2] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-space-junk-and-why-is-it-a-problem.html [3] (2021) Mark Garcia https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html [4] (2015) Mr. Dana Whalley https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD1019538 [5] (1994) Claude Phipps https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.46895 [6] Russell, John L. "Kepler's laws of planetary motion: 1609–1666." The British journal for the history of science 2.1 (1964): 1-24. [7] The formula in the answer section has been used
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/49615/rocket-fuel-cost-to-launch-1-kg-to-orbit [8]https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/orbit-formula#:~:text=The%20orbit%20formula%2C%20r%20%3D%20(,for%20the%20period%20T%20(Eq. https://github.com/Batuhanaydn/Protect-ISS
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ixaRNPciy13CIFvgRKgW5_BcBGLhmnF69i-hOpt32Hc/edit?usp=sharing
Tags
#space #nasa #kepler #ISS #SpaceJunk #3D #EmergencyProtocols