Space Titans

Plant Water Management , PWM_apex7

High-Level Project Summary

To release the shackles of our limited thinking capacity and propel humanity into a bright future where unfettered technological progress is combined with thoughtful, human-centered design: this is our optimistic vision of societal progress, this is the grand goal of Space Titans.Plans to develop a model space farm with a closed-loop water system for irrigation and provide a crew of 4-6 astronauts with food on a nutritional schedule during interstellar travel to other planets encapsulates this vision. Our design envisions a self-contained module/habitat that can be integrated into a launch vehicle for spaceflight, allowing primary crop trials to be initiated on the ground and cultivati

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12hdwLQGNH5gVqd3GSXiVn43VYmu4mbUj?usp=sharing

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12hdwLQGNH5gVqd3GSXiVn43VYmu4mbUj?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

FOREWORD

To release the shackles of our limited thinking capacity and propel humanity into a bright future where unfettered technological progress is combined with thoughtful, human-centered design: this is our optimistic vision of societal progress, this is the grand goal of Space Titans.

Plans to develop a model space farm with a closed-loop water system for irrigation and provide a crew of 4-6 astronauts with food on a nutritional schedule during interstellar travel to other planets encapsulates this vision.

Our design envisions a self-contained module/habitat that can be integrated into a launch vehicle for spaceflight, allowing primary crop trials to be initiated on the ground and cultivation processes to begin while the other spacecraft sub-modules are integrated, so that once in space they can continue with the necessary care. Once the crew has managed to reach a planet through a controlled descent of the spacecraft, this module/habitat has the option to be detached and used as part of a habitat.

per tray we have 10 plants (5x5) cm- we have 40 trays in the system, the blue trays are water catchers connected to the infusion system, center injects, sides captures liquid, the lower system is for cold seedbed of easy access,

The model of independent vertical cultivation that we present is able to maintain a certain temperature and control the amounts of CO2 emitted by the crop through an integrated filtering system. This model uses a system with hydroponics, hydroponics or hydroponic agriculture is a method used to grow plants using mineral solutions instead of agricultural soil. It is ideal for space travels.

Water forms the backbone of our system, without it we could not grow plants for space travel would be impossible, therefore, each culture module, is interconnected to primary valves of the culture module / habitat, which includes a storage tank, treatment filters and nutrient addition to subsequently supply the necessary amounts of liquid to each plant, this, in turn, is connected to the main water supply of the ship that has its own filtering system and treated.

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Space Agency Data

NASA. (s. f.-a). Advanced Plant Habitat. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/advanced-plant-habitat.pdf

NASA. (s. f.-b). Hydroponics or Soilless Culture. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19670087142/downloads/19670087142.pdf?attachment=true

NASA. (s. f.-c). SPACE FOOD AND NUTRITION. https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/143163main_Space.Food.and.Nutrition.pdf

NASA. (s. f.-d). Veggie. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/veggie_fact_sheet_508.pdf

NASA. (1989, septiembre). Continuous Hydroponic Wheat Production Using A Recirculating System. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900009537/downloads/19900009537.pdf

NASA. (2010, 3 agosto). The Influence of Microgravity on Plants. https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/478076main_Day1_P03c_Levine_Plants.pdf

NASA. (2019, 17 septiembre). Plant Water Management (PWM) Experiment. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190032030/downloads/20190032030.pdf

Hackathon Journey

Doing a project for SpaceApps allowed us to awaken our knowledge, it is important to highlight how teamwork makes that among all the colleagues we can make contributions of different ideas to reach the same end, the development of the project. This allowed us to learn different things about the theme of the challenge.

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