SpaceWalkers| Dust Yourself Off

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The Challenge | Dust Yourself Off

The Apollo missions showed us that lunar dust not only clung to everything and was impossible to fully remove, but it was also dangerous to humans and damaging to spacecraft systems. Your challenge is to develop a way to detect, map, and mitigate lunar dust to reduce the effects on astronauts or spacecraft interior systems.

Charged suit

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Our solution is protecting, detecting, and mapping the dust using device based on the triboelectric theorem, device based on the root mean square theorem and analyzing techniques (mass spectroscopy and gas chromatography).

SpaceWalkers

Our solution is to charge the spacesuit by the same charge as the dust charge, which is positive in the dayside and negative in the other side. So, the repulsion will force the dust away from the astronauts which will protect them from the dust effects. We are using a device (similar to Vande Graaff Generator), to charge the spacesuit. This device is based on the triboelectric theorem.

presentation link :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mdtq0JPIAZN0y7OSvwT8JKfNhN77Wa7u/view?usp=sharing

Resources:

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/leaping-lunar-dust.html

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/lunar_sourcebook/pdf/LunarSourceBook.pdfhttps://www.lpi.usra.edu/decadal/leag/DavidJLoftus.pdfhttps://www.cancer.org.au/preventing-cancer/workplace-cancer/silica-dust.html[

https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-mass-spectroscopy-605331