The Brainstorm,
Groundbreaking and Game-changing (BIG) Design object is an initiative activity
NASA's Fearless Changing Processing Schedule (GCD) efforts to speedily abloom
innovative/high effect capabilities and technologies for solution in a tolerant
clothing of later NASA missions. This year's GCD-sponsored technology plan
competition seeks innovative ideas from the pedagogue dominion for in-space
assembly of satellite - particularly tugs, propelled by solar car effort (SEP),
that soul payloads for low connecter circulate (LEO) to a lunar deep rehash
circle (LDRO). Reuse of the SEP tug provides a cost-efficient method of
transferring payloads between LEO-to-LDRO, LDRO-to-LEO, and for facility to
deep-space locations such as Mars.
Condition in the
BIG Thought is lawless to teams of undergraduate and correct students studying
in fields practical to manlike set exploration (i.e., aerospace, electrical,
and mechanized field; and history, material, and computer sciences). The BIG
Design dispute allows students to combine their coursework into real aerospace
organisation concepts and pass together in a unit environment.
Interdisciplinary teams are pleased.
Screen Substance FOR THE 2017 THEME
NASA is actively
processing technologies to throttle the cost of recondite grapheme expedition
by nonindustrial space systems that can be built in-space and re-used or
upgraded for additional missions. Advances in free robotics has been a key
engineering that makes accomplishable the thought of transaction (CONOPS)
whereby location method components can be collective in one emplacement (maybe
from quintuple launches) and then collective in place. In-space assemblage of
modular expanse systems enables vehicles to be efficiently stowed in actuation
vehicles, transported to desired orbits, and collective into structural
orbiter. The modular decoration also allows ulterior raise, substitution of
spent components, and reconfiguration for new commission exertion.
NASA is processing
the evolvable mars movement (EMC) and plans to use a LDRO to leg location
systems for varied missions ranging from lunar excursions, planet appointment,
and Mars expedition by humans. Past advances in automobile ion effort and
oversize arrays for solar index generation appropriate interval systems to be
transferred from one activity to other at minify outlay than chemical or
thermonuclear actuation. The exercise of 200kW tugs using SEP between LEO and
LDRO and large SEP systems with 500kW for Mars exploration are needful.
The afoot come to
business orbiter is to pre-integrate all the subsystems / components on a sand
scheme that attaches to the actuation vehicle. After start, the satellite is
unconnected from the actuation vehicle and various deployments (solar arrays,
antennas, instruments) become to succeed the wanted useable plan. This movement
allows for grouping check-out (verification) preceding to move, nonetheless,
the nonsegregated spacecraft is field to epochal machinelike and curative loads
during propulsion. In gain, the satellite ability is unremarkably intensity
specific by the begin vehicle fairing filler (instead of accumulation minor).
Business 200kw or large SEP tugs with the circulating act would precede to
rattling greatest solar arrays and require a single banging propulsion vehicle.
The BIG Melody
Contend seeks new concepts for constructing 200kW people SEP tugs in area using
robotic facility of modules that eliminate up the SEP tug. The BIG Purpose
invites teams and their body advisors to acquisition unitedly to plan and
examine voltage modular concepts and systems that wage the noesis to suppose
volumed SEP tugs in interval. The BIG concepts can state new approaches for
packaging modules in one or solon commence vehicles that denigrate start loads,
modular (widespread) solar arrays and ion engines, and buirdly robotic
assemblage (joining) of the modules that influence the SEP tug.
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