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CoEvolution > Oimp > Spacecraft

Spacefraft

Ad astra

Team
Initiator : Fabien

Goal

Build a spacecraft.

Abstraction of the problematic

• have a very realistic model of the targeted environment
• have the financial resources required

Pick a simple target first and get increasing funding. Tools :
Add sub-idea by SMS, email, IM, Twitter, robots, ...

In situ example

... story telling implying what the user want to do and what is the problem and how this will be solved (without details)

Proposed solutions

• different clear alternatives with references

Tools

• OpenRocket fully featured model rocket simulator written in Java.
  • It can be used to design and simulate rockets before actually building and flying them.
• Open Source Satellite Initiative (OSSI)

References

• The MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) project is a multidisciplinary project which has been conceived as a micro-organisms and higher plants based ecosystem intended as a tool to gain understanding of the behaviour of artificial ecosystems, and for the development of the technology for a future regenerative life support system for long term manned space missions - for example: a lunar base or a mission to Mars
• Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration, Springer 2009
• Space Technologies for the Benefit of Human Society and Earth Springer 2009
• CubeSat
  • "Through companies like Eurokot and Kosmotras, launch costs currently translate to about $40,000 per single cube for the developer."
• 2007 "Space" bookmarks from HeyBryan.org
• Bristol Spaceplanes industry leader in spaceplane design, was founded in 1991 to realise low-cost access to space by exploiting the three decades' experience of its founders.
• TRIGA® Nuclear Reactors the most widely used non-power nuclear reactor in the world.

See also

• OpenVirgle Project
  • "mission is, first and foremost, the consolidation of information."
• Open Luna Foundation
  • "seeks to return mankind to the lunar surface, first through robotic missions, followed by manned exploration, culminating in an eight person permanent outpost, and to do all of this in a way that it is accessible to everyone."