For our 5000 fan celebration we asked our supporters to post questions for us on our Facebook wall – great experience, good fun! Some questions and their responses provided below (1/3): Dev Prabhat Dahiya My question for team indus is: Have you get the circuit for solar energy and battery circuit work simultaneously? Team Indus … Continued
Space Apps – A Great Weekend!
Put together 9000+ people from 83 cities in 44 countries and the ISS,who were given 58 challenges which resulted in 770+ impressive solutions. That was what the largest hackathon in the world saw this weekend. To have brought this event to our city was a wonderful weekend experience. We saw people of many ages, from a 13-yr old hardware hero to coders & engineering undergrads who traveled a long way just to be part of this great collaborative event. We saw...
Create, Synch, Visualize, Explore @SpaceApps
The International Space Apps Challenge is an initiative by NASA and other partner space agencies, to throw open the opportunity of solving some of the most key issues in the realms of space exploration and social need, to citizens around...
Fostering Open Innovation @SpaceApps
At a time when the whole world speaks of innovation, have we understood what innovation truly means. If necessity is the mother of invention, then failure must be the father of innovation . When an organization such as NASA introspected...
Skimming the Horizon @Comet Pan-STARRS
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/sites/googlelunarxprize.org/files/styles/large/public/Stars%20in%20the%20sky.jpg The inquisitiveness behind figuring out celestial apparitions was one of the reasons why planetary laws and orbital mechanics exist today. Now that these apparitions have become predictable, comet sightings have gathered a cult following of sorts with astronomers, both amateur and pro, and astro enthusiasts flocking in huge numbers to witness such events. 2013 is being called as the Year of Comets. Two rare appearances in an year is special and when these are expected to be visible just with the...
Testing an OpNav Rig
An appropriate function that inputs the base-line, focal length, resolution & depth will help define the "hardware rig". You will still require test footage to be used for development of relevant control algorithms. Destructive testing of this rig is kind "easy" though prohibitively expensive. However all we really need is video footage, at a reasonably high resolution, calibrated for accurate height from the "surface" - these when put together can simulate a free/controlled fall onto the lunar surface without actually destroying...
In support of “Our Future in Space”
Team Indus is happy to support "Our Future in Space", there are some fun takeaways for all backers - 3 days to go, lets help them to their next stretch goal! Space: The Infinite Opportunity The National Space Society (NSS) wants to...
Moonshot despite the Unknown unknowns
Moving on to the mysterious and exciting world of the "Unknown unknowns"! These are the pieces of your project that you are totally unaware of – and there usually are a few of them for most projects - for a moonshot,...
Information is Power – A Tribute to Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) His last tweet was a witty answer, apparently a gag at the state of the US economy. His personal blog was called Raw Thought, the last entry of which was a comprehensive analysis of the plot of The Dark Knight.It was a vivid account of the plot which made it possible for even those who hadn’t watched the movie - to easily visualize every scene after reading it. For those who did...
Moonshot Management Mantra 101
Managing is moonshot is really just about 3 things – plan and track the "known knowns", keep trying to move the "known unknowns" to the first list, the "unknown unknowns" will come and bite you where it hurts, so keep trying to move these to the second list. Project Management So first up, the ‘known knowns’ are typically facts and info in the public domain that you can take for granted, most of the time: We know it is possible to get...
Landing Site Analysis – Mark Your X?
A very happy new year 2013 to everyone! Continuing on what it takes to get to the moon - by the time you have managed your path and energies associated with getting closer to the moon – you would likely be...
2012 @TeamIndus
2012 HIGHLIGHTS @TeamIndus httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glg8dHnZ50g Our team doubled in size. Our planned work quadrupled. Therefore still running behind schedule – Pratik, it’s a moon mission, get your team to stick to timelines! We got to the Moon, inside of a simulation, we now have...
Classical trajectories to the Moon
Till date there have been 75 planned missions for Moon, 10 of those did not quite make it. In 1959 Luna-1 was man's first attempt to reach the Moon - Luna-1 took a 36 hour trajectory and missed Moon by about...
Powering your way to the Copernicus Crater
Great you are headed to Copernicus crater - what are these ‘kicks’ really about? These kicks are short, intense bursts of thrust that change the spacecraft’s speed and direction. Bear in mind that they are NOT firing constantly – just like...
Directions to Copernicus crater, anyone?
If I had to 'kick' a football from SHAR, near Chennai (India's Spaceport near the southern tip of the country) to the Copernicus crater on the Moon, what will it really take? How much time will the ball take to reach there? Would it make a difference if I were attempting to 'chip' a golf ball instead? You should be able to answer some of these questions by the time you complete reading the following series of blog-posts; assuming you...
TI Locomotion 101 – Testbed Rovers
As telerobotics continues to be the favourite method of planetary exploration, rover technology continues to be redefined and innovative concepts are making their way into development test models. Here we take a look at some of the these promising rover concepts and technologies. ExoMars is a joint ESA-Russian astrobiological exploration mission to Mars. The ExoMars rover mobility system shall be using a 6-wheel “3-bogie” design, similar to the rocker bogie, which evolved from the RCL-E platform developed by Kucherenko et al.,...
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