Intelligent Earthlings

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What exactly does it do?

Recently, biological science researchers have begun using balloons as an experimental platform. In the context of NASA's planned and Martian missions, access to "near space" could advance scientists' understanding of how biological organisms respond to harsh environments similar to those on the Moon and Mars.

 The project also provides a temperature, humidity and air pressure sensing system, a wireless portable outdoor weather station.

It conducts demonstration tests of technology as well as scientific investigations in areas such as astrophysics, heliophysics, and atmospheric research. Depending on the specific mission goals and objectives, balloon flight durations can last from hours to several days or weeks for long-term testing and data collection. 

It can also help us with weather and atmospheric measurements, videography, planetary research, engineering education, and pollution monitoring.

A high-altitude balloon can show us many things, such as it can measure the speed of a planet and satellites, it can determine high and low weather places, it can measure the temperature of many places, these measurements are correct, and you can also measure rain, hurricanes and everything related to the weather.

How does it work?

Prior to launching a high altitude balloon, a payload with cameras is attached to a helium-filled balloon with various other equipment and then ascended into the atmosphere.

Since the payload can be subjected to violent turbulence in the jet stream, we must consider and design a lightweight rugged payload capsule that can withstand damage and ensure that the equipment used in flight returns safely to the ground to ensure the payload to survive the entire flight to the edge the atmosphere down to the Earth's surface for recovery and analysis. The payload capsule will therefore be designed to withstand extremely cold and cold temperatures.

During the ascent, the payload, using a lightweight camera, will take photographs of the ground. These images will be used to illustrate and document the entire ascent to the edge of the atmosphere all the way to the surface, through video. The lift will be provided by a helium-filled weather balloon. The balloon and the cargo will be connected with a rope. The payload system will also have a canopy fixed to the capsule.

During the flight and as the balloon rises in the atmosphere, the balloon itself becomes larger and larger because the air inside the balloon wants to match the air pressure outside the balloon, because because when we goes up pressure get lower and this occurs duo to the weight of the column of air above where you are. The higher you go, the less air there is above you, so the less the weight of that column of air and the lower the air pressure.

so, when the pressure get lower the pressure of the gas inside the balloon wants to be similar to the pressure out side the balloon so the balloon get bigger and bigger and this according to this law 

Pressure = Density x Gravitational filed strength x Height 

and we know that Density = mass / Volume

so Pressure = (mass / Volume )x Gravitational filed strength x Height.

so pressure is indirect with volume so when pressure decrease volume increase, and thats causes the balloon to get bigger and bigger until it Explodes.

Once that happens, when the balloon pops, the parachute deploys and the payload slides back onto the ground. Thus the contents of the payload can be safely returned to the ground. There is a SPOT GPS transmitter along with an altitude sensor to track the entire flight of the balloons. The payload will also have a GPS pad (data logger) to save GPS coordinates throughout the flight. Once the payload reaches the ground, the GPS and elevation data will be converted into an overlay for Google Earth, which will outline the entire flight path. The payload will also contain a temperature and pressure sensor that will record the change in temperature and pressure as altitude increases. This data will be retrieved after the flight and organized into a graph showing the change in temperature and pressure as you reach higher altitudes in the atmosphere.

What benefits does it have?

• Providing information for students interested in space science and exploration who dream of building low-cost, high-altitude balloons (HABs).
• Complete plan on how to build HABs.
• A plan designed to help students build a plan and help them use it in the scientific field of space exploration
• Bill Of Martials (BOM)
• A strategy that helps implement the action plan and contributes to identifying obstacles and problems that may negatively affect the success of the plan and finding appropriate solutions to confront them.
• Information about the balloon, this information includes:

1. Introduction (NASA Scientific Balloon).
2. types of balloons.
3. Simulation of all kind of balloons.
4. Scientific foundations.
5. Comparison of each type of balloons.
6. Competitions from HAB.
7. Configure each balloon "components".
8. The design of the airship and the reason.

• The project is equipped with a tracking system (GPS/GSM System) in order to track the location of the balloon, the place of landing and its location in the near space
• The project is equipped with a (Camera system) to photograph space and perform many tasks.
• The project is provided with a (Power system) in order to mitigate the total system failure due to drained batteries.
• The project is supplied to me (Sensor system). The sensors system will operate over either the I2C bus or through digital/analogy input.
• The project is supplied by me (Flight Compute).
• Our The lesson-plan includes also: How preparation, launch, tracking, and recovery of a HAB.

What do you hope to achieve?

We hope that our project will be aware of all the information that new students and researchers need as well, and we hope that anyone who sees our information will benefit from it to build the balloon and know the weather.

We hope that a project will be built according to our information and research, and the students will build it, and the project will succeed and achieve the expected results, and able to measure the Weather and the ability to determine the location.

We hope to achieve success in order to increase our hope in ourselves to be able to solve any problem, whether it is a personal, family, international or global problem.

We hope that the project will be among the international projects, which are classified as one of the best projects, and we hope that everything will be simple, easy and available to every student who wants to build a model for such a project.

We hope that the project will achieve the highest distance in a short period of time and achieve successful results.

We also hope to achieve great success that makes us outperform people and take a place in this competition and then excel in the first place to take an international position and rank first in order to get a global place and go to the missile launch site and watch and watch it realistically and not through social media, and write our names Among highly qualified people, we are classified among the ambitious and talented youth that help in solving the problems facing the world.

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

Since our challenge is o to develop a lesson-plan and bill of materials (BOM) to teach students how to build a low-cost HAB capable of reaching near-space and develop a bill of materials that in turn display all the materials that are supposed to be used to build this project, which is the "HAB". So, These bill of martials includes the main six parts of the balloon and they are:

HAB components:

1- Balloon

2- Cord

3- payload

4- Gas

5- Parashot

6- Rader reflector

PAYLOAD CAPSULE PROTOTYPE

 1- SPOT GPS

2- GPS DATA LOGGER

3- Camera

4- Flight computer

5- Extended Battery Packs -

6- Radar Reflector - Davis Emergency Deluxe

7- Parachute - 6ft parachute - Rocket man

8- Helium Inflation System with Lift-Measurement Device

9- Ball Bearing Swivel - AL wonder Fishing Strength

10- Sensor system:

• BMP180 Barometric pressure sensor (for determining altitude)
• MMA7361 3-axis accelerometer
• LPY503AL Gyroscope
• TMP36 temperature sensor

NEAR-SPACE NEAR YOU!: it provides a lot of information about the challenge that's includes: Purpose, objectives, background, POTENTIAL CONSIDERATIONS of the challenge and what to doing your challenge "NEAR-SPACE NEAR YOU! ".

Scientific Balloons | NASA: it provides much more information about scientific balloons and previous experiments that done. 

Scientific Balloons | Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility: It provided all information about Scientific Balloons and also about the types of balloons, Scientific Balloons, mechanism and components of each one. that we used it for forming big background about the balloons.

Students Send Balloons to the Stratosphere: it presents the Students that Send Balloons to the Stratosphere and it helps us know and to get much more information about the materials and how they developed in their prototype and its pros and cons.

NASA Mission Will Study the Cosmos With a Stratospheric Balloon: it takes about NASA Mission Will Study the Cosmos With a Stratospheric Balloon.

How would you describe your Space Apps experience?

Our experience in the application of space applications is one of the best experiences that we have done over the years, because through it we have acquired many skills that have increased our thinking, our determination and our will to solve the problems facing the world.

Our experience in the application of space applications was one of the experiences that dealt with artificial intelligence, and how to deal with it, and it is one of the useful responses to humanity in which we learned many unique things, and our experience in this field must be described as an experience from which we benefited from many qualities, and we have now Huge amount of information about this interesting field. The importance of this experience is because there was a very large return after going through these stages, and this useful return consisted in acquiring many skills, including: creativity, teamwork, the use of filters, research skills, leadership, presentation skills, and problem solving and And communication and cooperation between team members, thinking and taking a large background of information on many new things to us.

What did you learn?

After our application in this interesting field, and after the suffering of searching for useful and reliable information, and after completing this project, the team members acquired many interesting skills that benefit humanity and all the world, and among the best of these skills was broad and interesting information that centered on balloons, their types and the differences between them And their advantages, disadvantages, parts, materials, use and scientific basis for them, and there was also more and more information about previous models. Among other things, we also learned how to build a real balloon that can fly to an altitude of 50,000 feet and can also withstand atmospheric pressure, and the team also got some useful information about the use of artificial intelligence in the balloon and how to deal with it.

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

There is a vast space around the Earth, and we know very little about its secrets, because our understanding of it is related to the various signals received on Earth, including space from the sun, moon, planets, galaxies and countless stars

The reason for choosing this project is due to many reasons, and these reasons are:

Since the general idea of ​​the challenge revolved around scientific balloons and airships, and the goal of this challenge was to develop a complete plan to help students build a balloon capable of reaching near space with a low price. The reason for this was many reasons for our choice of this challenge, and the first of them is that It is not related to programming and this is the biggest reason because team members are not interested in programming. The second reason is the general idea of ​​this challenge, which is to develop a plan, and this increased our inspiration and curiosity to know a lot about balloons, the scientific basis for them, their features, eyes, the mechanism for making them and their uses, and many of the reasons that gave us the opportunity to choose this challenge.

The reason we chose this challenge is because we also want to help new students and researchers as well, and hopefully anyone who sees building a balloon and knowing the weather will benefit from it.

What was your approach to developing this project?

Our project is one of the important projects for humanity, because it enables humans to reach space based on scientific foundations and at a simple cost, but our project can be developed in the sense that we make the balloon bear a greater amount of pressure to rise to more than 50 thousand feet without any damage, and it is also possible to set specific directions More accurate so that the balloon driver can steer and land easily, and there are also many improvements that team members can do to make the balloon more effective.

How did your team resolve setbacks and challenges?

1. Take the pain out of meetings

We have all experienced meetings which have been a waste of time and effort. Here are a few tips which you can use the next time you get together as a team;

• Plan ahead – Make sure there is a clear agenda which is relevant to all the attendees. Have a clear focus on the outcomes you want to achieve.
• Use time effectively make it a rule and insist that everyone reads any papers, before rather than during valuable meeting time.
• Keep the meeting on track. Build in breaks and summarise on a regular basis to capture outcomes and next steps.
• Review how the meeting went and ask the participants what went well and what could be improved.
• Circulate key ‘action’ points along with ‘names’ for who is responsible. Do this immediately after the meeting

2. Delegate effectively

As a leader it’s often difficult to let go and easy to fall into the trap of “doing everything yourself.” It is important to challenge this mind-set.

Learning the art of delegation will not only raise team performance but also give you the time to focus on more strategic issues. It is also a great way of developing your team.

• Start by looking at your own job. What tasks could you pass on to others which would help them to develop?
• Match the task you want to delegate to the interest and development needs of your team members.
• Explain the outcome of the task and the key deliverables, but always ask the other person for ideas on how they can proceed.
• Provide support (this can also be from other team members) and arrange times to check in and review progress.
• Finally provide feedback and recognition so that the individual feels valued for the work they have done.

Is there anyone you'd like to thank and why

We would like to thank the NASA Benha staff for their support and hard work with us and follow us.

NASA Resources:-

1- https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons

2- NEAR-SPACE NEAR YOU!

3- Scientific Balloons | Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility

4- Students Send Balloons to the Stratosphere

5- NASA Mission Will Study the Cosmos With a Stratospheric Balloon

6- https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code820/index.html

7- https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/

8- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20050243623/downloads/20050243623.pdf#:~:text=The%20high-altitude%20scientific%20balloon%20is%20a%20thermal%20vehicle.,critical%20bit%20of%20information%20during%20the%20design%20process.

9- https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/explorers_balloons.html

Another Resources:-

1-https://spex.rit.edu/hab/#:~:text=A%20high%20altitude%20balloon%2C%20or%20HAB%2C%20is%20a,balloon%20becomes%20too%20great%20and%20the%20balloon%20pops.

2- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon

3- https://youtu.be/ckzpSbEKU3c

4- https://youtu.be/EgBRShKzHNE

5- https://joshanthony.github.io/hab-materials/

6- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/358176976604398638/

7- https://spex.rit.edu/hab/

8- https://balloonnews.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/10-ways-that-a-high-altitude-balloon-flight-can-go-wrong/

9- https://youtu.be/EgBRShKzHNE

10- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbigjIh01Uk

11- https://youtu.be/rgglU2AVeps

12- https://youtu.be/a42fEO0dZ0M

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