[SpaceProgram] Introduction & Leightweight probes

[Paul Szymkowiak]

Thanks Máté!

>I think a project like this would fit well in hackerspace environment, and
would provide very cool results if succeeded:

Agreed :)

>we could be the first to monitor a long term habitat of earthlings on the
Moon. :)

That sounds like a very cool goal for HSP to help achieve!

Also makes me wonder if a Hackerspace competition to design & build a LIFE
Bio-module prototype might be worthwhile? Perhaps even a design that
attempts to address the complaint that Phobos LIFE was in violation of the
Outer-Space Treaty?


In any case, it might be worth us discussing whether the Outer Space Treaty
is something HSP supports, especially when consider the funding of projects:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty


Paul

Paul Szymkowiak
HackMelbourne.org <http://hackmelbourne.org/>


On 13 April 2012 22:08, Máté Ravasz <ravaszmeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Andreas
> I'm sorry, I wouldn't want to hijack your original post, but I thought we
> might share a common interest here.
>
> Yes, Puli Space is an official competitor for the Google Lunar X Prize for
> more than a year now ( http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/team-puli), but we are largely busy with building our rover. So side projects like a
> capsule with living things is something we don't really have resources for,
> although we could take it on board if was outsourced at least in part.
>
> My idea would be a small unit, much like the LIFE experiment prepared for
> the Fobos-Grunt mission (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Interplanetary_Flight_Experiment ),
> but instead of Phobos, we could send it to our Moon.
>
> This could hold lichens, however we could place multiple organisms there
> including bacteria, archaea and even some eukaryotes (tardigrada are my
> personal favourites).
>
> The difference compared to LIFE would be a live monitoring of the samples,
> either by simply taking liquid cultures of bacteria and measuring optical
> density from time to time, or by using a mini camera which would take
> pictures from time to time.
>
> Gotta run now, if this sparks interest, then I am happy to discuss it in
> more detail, and maybe we can come up with something. I think a project
> like this would fit well in hackerspace environment, and would provide very
> cool results if succeded: we could be the first to monitor a long term
> habitat of earthlings on the Moon. :)
>
>
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