High-Level Project Summary
SolutionConceptual design of the solution to transfer a crew from Earth to Mars, in a round trip, ensuring in each section, the supplies such as: water, food and fuel.Implementation of somel space stations for the development automatic of crops, provision of water and fuel.These bases would be located at different distances between Earth and Mars, thus allowing the spacecraft going in the direction of the Martian explorations to recharge their modules with food, fuel, water, spare parts and seeds and continue at a higher speed, since the Loading weight and refueling more fuel to go faster.
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Detailed Project Description
Introduction:
Food is a key factor in keeping the crew healthy during space flights and for long-duration missions. Having some multivitamins will not be enough to maintain the health of the astronauts but they will need fresh products.
For this reason, it seeks to provide astronauts with nutrients in a durable and easily absorbed form: freshly grown fruits and vegetables.
Problem:
In this case, space flights respond to exploration missions on the planet Mars. Which implies venturing into space for long distances and longer times, the crew would be traveling for months without being able to be resupplied. And once arrived on Martian soil dependent on prepackaged food loaded on land. This presents two problems, the first is that these prepackages only have an accumulated amount for a certain time and the vitamins they contain decompose over time, and secondly that when the crew members returned to Earth, said food .
Our Solution:
We consider that it is necessary to intervene with spatial supply bases where food collected in vertical crops developed in modules that have automated systems, cameras and sensors is produced and stored, which can be communicated with a control table on land or in a Martian base. These bases allow to sow, control, harvest and pack fruits or vegetables (dehydrated) as well as their seeds to sow them in the station or on Mars. It also captures the water from the space ice through a system of paddle wheels and heaters, this water is stored for the plantation and for human consumption.
It also allows storing fuel to recharge ships with crew, the supply is done by unmanned ships. And by means of solar panels to supply the entire electricity station, all this allows that daily care of a crew in charge (temporary) is not necessary. This station only requires fuel supply for the ships that go or fly to Mars and nutrients for the plants that are transported by the same unmanned ship with fuel and optional the manned ones. This automation system would control the distribution of water, the content of the atmosphere of the cultivation module, humidity levels and temperature. In addition, it would have a bank of diodes (LED) that contains the most suitable spectrum of light to encourage the growth of vegetables, and thus also guide the growth that is affected by the lack of gravity.
These bases would be located at different distances between Earth and Mars, thus allowing the ships that are going in the direction of the Martian explorations to recharge their modules with food, fuel, water, spare parts and seeds and continue traveling at a higher speed, since it is the lower the load weight and the greater the amount of refueling fuel to go faster. A point to highlight that they would fulfill a fundamental function for the flights back to land, where the crew have the minimum of food (because the settlements on Mars are early and with little development for survival), and thus be able to undertake the long journey back.
We consider that it is very productive for space exploration to build these autonomous space bases since they are very convenient strategic points for settlements on Mars, the moon or another planet close to them for these times or in the future
Space Agency Data
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Hackathon Journey
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References
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#Food #water #mars # exploration #seed