[SpaceProgram] Introduction & Leightweight probes

[Máté Ravasz]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I must admit I know next to nothing about law, but
after skimming through the text of the Outer Space Treaty (
http://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm ), I have found many statements in
there to agree with (eg: no weapons of mass destrucion in space, no
claiming of land, etc).

To be honest, I think legal terms that work for space missions are very
poorly developed. Maybe even a hackerspace grant could be established to
summarize and clarify legal concerns for such missions...

On 14 April 2012 12:00, <spaceprogram-request at lists.hackerspaces.org> wrote:

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> Thanks M?t?!
>
> >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
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> Paul Szymkowiak
> HackMelbourne.org <http://hackmelbourne.org/>
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> On 13 April 2012 22:08, M?t? 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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