EmOne

Awards & Nominations

EmOne has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

EmOne's space debris mitigation

High-Level Project Summary

From hundreds of years of space exploration, humans have sent out over ten thousand rocket launches into space and parts of those rockets are still orbiting the earth as space debris causing substantial damage to other rockets or satellites when colliding with them. We have created an earth model displaying millions of debris orbiting the earth and this will provide information for the rockets and satellites that will be launched in the future in order for them to avoid those space debris. We further build on this project by developing a payload system that protects the satellites orbiting from debris and either send it to a graveyard orbit or through the recycling process.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1noNz3sZWj38n05yreJT9HwBdm0KUf9gV/view?usp=sharing

Link to Final Project

https://www.emone.co.th

Detailed Project Description

“Space debris” encompassing both small and large pieces could cause severe problems to all space vehicles. Most tiny pieces of orbital debris cannot be removed or re-entry to the earth for demise and could potentially cause damage to satellites and space stations in the future.

Courtesy: OBCD &ESA

In Orbit Statistic

Courtesy: ESA

Many space debris removal companies try to inspect, destroy, and capture large debris items of around a few ten thousand in orbit and continue a few missions before completing the end of life. But that’s not the end. Small and medium-sized objects are not treated as they should, while there is still a possibility that they could cause accidents. Currently, we prevent this by increasing the thickness of the contact thickness surface to reduce the impact force or avoid collisions by creating discrepancies in the best orbital layer position. But there are risks of errors that may occur in the orbit maneuver process.

Longer service life is also another factor contributing to a significant reduction in service costs. Currently, the cost is approximately several hundred million USD per mission. The method of catching up and approaching the objects is a good one, but the fuel will eventually run out as the mission continues. Still, this method does not address the small and medium-sized debris items, and we need to find a solution to solve this issue.

What exactly does it do?

This simple concept will handle several million small debris pieces and many hundred thousand medium-sized debris pieces and act as a housekeeper (or space keeper). It is a contactless system. It will sweep the target objects by using impact support and push-pull object velocity with bending direction control because any object in space already has kinetic energy. The object will approach our system by itself when the system is in the rendezvous place.

We are developing on this project by designing and developing a payload system that protects the satellites orbiting from small and medium space debris and either sends it to a graveyard orbit or through the recycling process. Our system will sense space debris from a distance away by radar and camera technology and prepare to deviate its direction by using push and pull technology that creates an electric charge force field that redirects the debris. This will reduce the probability of satellite collision and destruction

How does it work?

Develop technology to control speed and change the orbital level of objects in space.Reduce one-time use. Reduce the amount of space waste. Monitor the density of objects in each orbital layer and bring them back for demise or recycling process. The system employs state-of-the-art technology to handle this issue in a few stages below:

First stage: The design to protect any valuable satellites and space stations.
Second stage: The design to search for and approach target orbit starting from 500 KM to 1000 KM altitude to sort all debris in a particular area and will extend to other orbit altitudes in the future.
Third stage: The design to reduce speed and orientation axis of target objects for asymmetrical debris items. The system will approach these objects to reduce complex proximity in order to catch them.
Final stage: The design for bringing target objects back to earth for recycling or demise by de-orbit the objects or re-position to a dedicated graveyard orbit.

Our technology concept; Copyright @ EmOne 2021

Web-information:

Our 3D-map displays the location of small and medium size satellites, rockets and debris by using the daily orbit data from space-track.org and contributed from stuff in space by “James Yoder”. The 3D-map contains several pieces of information: including name, type, apogee, perigee, inclination, altitude, velocity, and period. Each dot with a different colour shows the position and type of each object.

The colors represent satellites (RED), rockets (BLUE), and debris (GREY), respectively. The objects are categorized by its mission in the group button to help users with searching. The information and orbit of an object are shown by clicking on the dot in 3D-map. Users can also search for a specific object by adding a satellite or rocket name at the searching button.

Courtesy: James Yoder; Contributed by: https://emone.space

What benefits does it have?

State or space agency will have a solution to solve and manage space debris density. We can get some orbit back which we couldn't use after the Kessler effect started Space logistics also will gain the benefit from this solution.

Our goal look similar the saturn narrow ring; Courtesy: Wikipedia

What do you hope to achieve?

This technology concept (TRL3) needs to be developed and test in orbit service and needs to be supported financially for research and human resources. I hope this technology concept can be one of the best space keeper solutions to clean up and sort the remaining debris to protect satellites and space stations and reduce insurance premiums and make a real clean tech space sustainable in the next 3 - 5 years.

What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?

Payload / Satellite

Tool

Standard Code static analysis tool

Simulation tool

Coding languages

C/C++, Verilog

Hardware

Carbon fibre and Metal 3D Printer

FPGA, Microcontroller

Software

OS, ECAD, MCAD, Embedded software development

Ground station Tool

VIM, Visual studio code, IDE

coding languages,

PHP, OpenGL, javascript, NodeJS

hardware

AWS EC2 Cloud computing,

Software

Cross platform OS, Apache, Space track, WebGL

Space Agency Data

ESA space economy and 2021 CSID provide emerging space statistics and inspire us.
CONFERS is a very nice event and brings us to meet many people in the industry.
Daily updates with orbit data from Space-Track.org and uses the excellent satellite.js Javascript library to calculate satellite positions.Space
SC14/WG3: Space operations international standards.
SC14/WG7: Orbital debris mitigation international standards.

Hackathon Journey

How would you describe your Space Apps experience?

Joining the Hackathon challenge at NASA Space Apps is such a wonderful journey for us. This project leads us to meet new people that have the same interests. We also have a chance to develop our teamwork skills by working with a group of 3-5 people. Furthermore, it also gives us an opportunity to share and acknowledge ideas and technologies with each other.

What did you learn?

During this hackathon, we have learned many things that we have never known before such as MPCORB.DAT,which is a very useful tool to organize a number of asteroids in a clear way and provides a rich dataset we can rely on. We got a lot of useful information from it and it’s extended file. In addition, we learnt how to effectively put the analytical solutions into practice, which involves theoretical issues, system control, data formats, GHA calculations and so on. What’s more, we found that dipole desaturation is a very complicated process that can be affected by various conditions such as hyper-saturation and the available momentum storage of the reaction wheels. Last but not least, the teamwork spirit is the key in this journey. We need to share respect with each other and do our best with a uniform goal.

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

As we mention in our project description that there are millions of small-medium size debris orbits in the earth's inner space. These debris can cause major impact to the new satellites or rockets that are going to be sent into space, resulting in space contamination and even put threats to human life. Unfortunately, it hasn't arisen enough attention in public and there is an argument that the government should sponsor more in livelihood construction rather than wasting money in that area. So conducting this challenge can not only bring more public concerns and popularize knowledge related to it, but also inspire more creative solutions and ideas. Moreover, tracking the location of small-medium size debris is challenging because of their size and state, leaving many problems to be solved. Hence, our team wants to share our opinions and make a voice in this challenge.

What was your approach to developing this project?

Space and earth calls us to help clean up and balance clean technology and the green environment. All stakeholders must respond and collaborate to this climate change.

How did your team resolve setbacks and challenges?

This journey is filled with all kinds of unpredictable setbacks and challenges, but we are not frustrated with it. Instead, we share it in the group talk and if necessary, we would organize a meeting to talk in detail. We believe conversation is of great importance in teamwork, which is definitely not a zero-sum game. Searching online for more information, collecting our respective ideas, centralizing intelligence and forming one solution with everyone’s agreement is a way we adopt under most circumstances.

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

Thank you to all of us.

The host of Space App provides a platform for our team to meet each other and do this meaningful project.

UNIDO Cleantech in GCIP programme to give us technology and environment thinking.

Luisa Innocenti and teams from ESA Clean space to gave us introduce myself in early webinar: European Technical Recommendations for Safe and Sustainable Close Proximity Operations In-Orbit that is first time for our team in this industry

Dr.Stella Alexandrova from S-Cosmo to teach us regarding emerging technologies guidelines as a personal mentor.

Thailand Space Consortium and Nation Innovation Agency for opportunities in Space Economy: Lifting off 2021, Also all mentors (GISTDA, INSTED, SIAM SYNCHROTRON) and organizer team (Aimspire) in this programme.

Thank you to all professors in TGGS and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, KMUTNB (KMITNB AE01) Thailand when I was so young.

Thank you to our parents and our family for giving our life and warming support.

Thank you space and earth for giving knowledge and supplies to us.

References

Global Judging

This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.