MAGELLANIC CLOUDS NASA 🌱🚀

Kuching, Sarawak | Have seeds will travel!

Awards & Nominations

MAGELLANIC CLOUDS NASA 🌱🚀 has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Deployable Space Green House (DSGH)

High-Level Project Summary

The inspiration came up as we used a simple origami fan and airplane boarding tunnel as a reference for the solution. The solution, being used as an extension connected or simply put, installed from the food storage’s entrance and it’ll be extended as more food is being consumed as days/months/years pass by. The extension serves as an extended room for the plantation to be executed. The more room there is for more ‘pillows’ to be set up, the more food supply can grow. The shelf will soon be installed in the provided space by the astronauts. It can be installed and restored when it is necessary according to the astronaut’s needs.

On the first day, the extension will be closed and pressed together.

After a few months, it will be pulled more outward. The space provided inside the extensions will be available to set up a plantation for food resources using ‘pillows’.

After more months pass by, the extension will be extended further outward from the entrance when more food is being consumed.

After a year (estimate), the plantation room will be extended more forward. More extendable parts would be revealed by each end side of the extensions, which would reveal a ‘T’ formation in the end just as shown in the last illustration.

When deployable is closed, empty shelves will be restored by astronauts.

When deployable is going to open, astronauts will install the shelves for the pillow plants.

Pillow plants will be place in the shelves.

After a few weeks, the plants will grow horizontally from the extended connector depending on the position of the seeds and the LED lights.

Space Agency Data

My teammates and I were searching some of the data from the space agency data which is in NASA about how plants growing in space using this link: https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space

Plant pillow works in space:

https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/137756869069/space-gardening-101

Veggie system:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/advanced-plant-habitat.pdf

Advanced Plant System:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/advanced-plant-habitat.pdf

Sustenance In Space

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/everydaylife/jamestown-needs-fs.html

Eating in Space

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/ditl_eating

We also not forget to watch the challenges that astronauts are facing due to limited space and mass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM3uaR0dltQ&list=PL37Yhb2zout05pUjr7OoRFpTNroq_wd9f&index=8

Hackathon Journey

We, the three of us, take up a challenge “ HAVE SEEDS WILL TRAVEL!”. The reason is we knew how the plants were living on earth and trying to find the solution on planting the plants during the long journey to Mars. During the project, we were doing a lot of research regarding the pillow plant, the intake of the astronauts.

How would you describe your Space Apps experience?

The Space Apps was an incredible experience! This is our first time participating in this kind of program involving NASA! We actually learned a lot of things from the workshops to the challenging project that we ever did. I hope we get to join this program next time.

What did you learn?

We learned about the pillow plant that astronauts used to grow plants in space and the fundamental needs for plants to grow in a microgravity situation. Besides that, we learned the astronauts grow plants in 2 different systems, which are The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) and The Vegetable Production System. In addition, we learn about the consumption of astronauts, types of food that was packaged/available, and the intake of astronauts. We also found out that the meals are stored in locker trays that were arranged in the order that the astronauts will eat them.

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

My team was inspired in figuring out the ways to plant in a smaller spaceship. From the video challenge, we realized that astronauts are limited in space to place more pillow plants. This will enable us to think critically from every aspect.

What was your approach to developing this project?

Our approach in developing this project is through investigation from the internet, and asking questions from the launch chat.

Is there anyone you'd like to thank and why?

First of all, we would like to thank Mr. Siva, as our teacher, for helping us a lot to make this project a success. Other than that, we would like to thank NASA SPACE APPS SARAWAK and not forget the NASA team for giving us the golden opportunity to take up this exciting hackathon.