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Greetings from the editor’s desk. This is Sneha Bhattacharya from the EEE Association. I am your Editor in Chief. We are pleased to welcome you to the second issue of The EEEA Review under our tenure. In this issue, we have focused on the upcoming technologies that can help sustain life in outer space. Humanity began in Africa. Yet we didn’t stay there, not all of us- over thousands of years our ancestors walked over the continent of Africa, then explored to other parts. When it came to the sea, the curiosity in humans led them to build boats that sailed tremendous distances to islands they could not have known
I guess, the curiosity to go beyond, up into the unknown is the reason why today some of us look at the stars and imagine, “What’s up there? Could we go there? How?” This led to the advances in sciences- to find life beyond earth and explore the unknown. But let us go deeper- how life is outside this protective barrier called atmosphere. There is no escaping the fact that inhabitants of the Earth evolved to thrive with a certain amount of gravity. So in the early days of space travel, NASA had tried to understand what happens to a human body beyond earth’s pull. To check if the humans could successfully live properly in space, experiments were done with animal subjects like dogs, monkeys, mice etc. This issue focuses on the various aspects of how life in outer space is made possible. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestions or comments for this issue. I look forward to receiving your contribution. - Sneha Bhattacharya EEE, 3rd Year
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1. Hibernation
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2. Kepler Space Telescope
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3. Space Farming
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journey the spacecraft takes to• reach• its target. It really just depends on how much fuel you're willing to burn to• get• there. More fuel, shorter travel time. The fastest spacecraft launched from Earth was NASA's New Horizons mission, which is en route to Pluto. In January 2006, the probe left Earth at 36,000 mph (58,000 kph). A long summer break ended for NASA’s New Horizons on Sept. 11, as the spacecraft “woke” itself on schedule from a five-month hibernation period. As we know it takes a lot of time to reach mars and there is a lot of research going on regarding it. It means that the astronauts need a lot of food, energy and time. The prospective benefits that were reported last year included a cut in the food and water required on their spacecraft, a reduction in waste products, smaller living quarters and less space needed for supplies, exercise and entertainment. And putting the crew to sleep might minimise their psychological challenges which is the most important thing that help to do further research by the astronauts after reaching mars.
What is hibernation? Hibernation is a deep sleep that helps to save energy and survive the winter without eating much. Hibernation is the process which is used by many animals to save energy during winter i.e. we can say it helps to save food and energy. So the same thing can be used or will be used by the astronauts so as to save energy and food while going to the mars. Space trips to other planets would require months of travel through the vacuum of space. Maintaining the crew’s health is a vital concern. If the crew could be induced to the hibernate, the problem of survival become easier to solve. Hibernation is a type of torpor, or reduced metabolism caused by hypothermia. Unlike in cryogenics, the body does not actually freeze. A 10 degree drop in body temperature reduces metabolic rate by 50 to 70 percent. The first spacecraft to make this journey was “NASA’s Mariner 4”, launched on November. The total journey time from Earth to• Mars• takes between 150-300 days depending on the speed of the launch, the alignment of Earth and• Mars, and the length of the
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Kepler is unique among space telescopes, it is designed to stare fixedly at one small patch of sky, taking the same snapshot day in and day out for years on end. Planets orbiting the stars are much smaller dimmer and they get lost in the glare. So Kepler looks for a transit, which occurs when a planet passes in front of the star and as it does so, it dims the light by a fraction. This dimming is what Kepler is designed to detect. On May 12, 2009, just three days after it started collecting data it spotted a dim from Kepler 22. By June 2010, 15 months after launch, Kepler had found 700 potential planets. Extrapolating from the Kepler data, some estimates put the number of planets in the Universe in the trillions. Ten months later it dimmed again, and again ten months after on December 15, 2010. It had now discovered the first planet in the habitable zone, Kepler 22b over six hundred light years away.
In the beginning there was darkness and then came the “BANG� that gave birth to an endless expanding existence of time, space and matter. Now, we see further than we had ever imagined, beyond the limits of our own existence, a place we call the Universe. Earth is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old, and for much of that history it has been home to life in one weird form or another. The earliest evidence of life on Earth comes from fossilized mats of cyanobacteria called stromatolites that are about 3.7 billion years old.
On February 28, 2012, NASA announced over 1000 potential new planets, one of these orbiting the star KOI-2626. This particular is a dwarf star with about one-thousandth of the energy emission of a regular star. The planet orbiting KOI2626 is much closer than any other planets in the Goldilock zone. KOI-2626.01 orbits the red dwarf star once every 38 days and such close orbit causes one side of the planet to always face the sun, a phenomenon known as tidal locking. The complete contrast in temperatures on each sides cause a steady wind flow which makes the planet suitable for life in specific areas. One of the most interesting discovery however is that of KOI-701.04, twelve hundred light years away, a planet orbiting KOI-701.03 which is exactly in the habitable zone and is only a little bigger than the Earth, perfect to be made out of water and rocks. The planet now confirmed to be Kepler 62f is the first true Earth analogue around a sun like star. If this planet has oceans of water and rocky land masses then the possibility of life can be as numerous they are on our own planet. The environment could be surprisingly similar to that on Earth. The density and properties of water are dictated by the laws of physics which are universal. Aquatic life forms may have the familiar streamlined bullet shaped like most fish on Earth. The planet is 40% bigger than Earth and so has higher gravity. Terrestrial life forms may respond as such and may have increased resistance in the form of colon trunks and more legs
Scientists are now finding answers courtesy of the Kepler space telescope. Launched on March 7, 2009, into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit with the mission of detecting alien worlds orbiting distant stars and to discover if any of them can be a suitable home for life, this incredible telescope has revealed that such planets are far more common than we ever imagined and has radically altered what we know about our galaxy. Of the 3500 potential planets Kepler has spotted, some seem familiar- huge gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn or smaller rocky worlds that could be like Earth, Venus or Mars, while others are straight out of science fiction- like Kepler 16b which orbits a double star like Luke Skywalker’s home planet from Star Wars or the even more bizarre Kepler 10b which orbits so close to its star that it has oceans bigger than the pacific, not of water, but that of molten lava. These oddities are a side show as its primary objective is to find a planet that might have the correct conditions for alien life, a planet like Earth.
Based on the Kepler data, scientists estimate that at least one in six stars has an Earth sized planet. There could be upward of 17 billion Earth sized planets in our galaxy alone. Kepler has shown us how commonplace planets outside our solar system are, suggesting there are other places in the galaxy suitable for life. The Kepler space telescope continued to collect data until May 15, 2013, when the second of its four reaction wheels failed and it lost the steady lock on the stars it had watched so keenly. It was a one of a kind space program which changed the perspective of what we knew of the possibility of ET life.
Kepler data shows that there are potentially habitable planets and on applying the principles of biology and evolution, scientists are even beginning to guess how ETs could have adapted to their environment. Kepler is finding worlds that have the right environment suitable for life as we know it.
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Space farming•refers to the cultivation of crops for food and other materials in space•or on off-Earth celestial objects – equivalent to•agriculture•on•Earth. Farming on the Moon•or Mars•share many similarities with farming on a space station•or space colony, but would lack the complexity of microgravity found in the latter. Each environment would also have differences in the availability of inputs•to the space agriculture process: inorganic material needed for plant growth, soil media, insolation , relative availability of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen, and so forth. Supply of food to•space stations•and proposed interplanetary spaceships is•staggeringly expensive. Furthermore, the impracticality of resupplying interplanetary missions make the prospect of growing food inflight appealing. The existence of a space farm would aid the creation of a•sustainable •environment, as plants can be used to recycle wastewater, generate oxygen (10m² of crops produces 25% of the daily requirements of 1 person, or about 180210grams of oxygen), ccontinuously purify the air and recycle faeces on the space station or spaceship. This essentially allows the space farm to turn the spaceship into an artificial•ecosystem•with a•hydrological cycle•and•nutrient recycling. A variety of technical challenges will face colonists who attempt to do off-Earth agriculture. These include: The effect of reduced gravity on various greenhouse crops.
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Reduced lighting in some locations; for example, Mars receives about half of the solar radiation as Earth does, and any pressurized greenhouse enclosure will further reduce the light reaching plants. Moon locations or orbital colonies would likely receive more sunlight due to the absence of a humid atmosphere as on Earth and therefore would have m more solar energy available to reach the plant. For the first time since the end of NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, there is serious talk of sending humans beyond low earth orbit. NASA has been courting ideas for
Up until 2015, the fare for astronauts aboard the International Space Station was limited to the dehydrated, freeze-dried foods that would be delivered aboard cargo resupply missions. Not only are these• foods lacking in the taste department, but at$10,000 per pound, it's also incredibly expensive to ship freeze-dried spaghetti to low earth orbit. The goal, then, is to figure out how to produce food in space.
Another product of NASA’s space-farming endeavors allows plants to text their caretakers when they’re thirsty. Astronauts aboard the ISS don’t have a lot of time for checking up on plants, so an employee of BioServe Space Technologies, a nonprofit, NASAsponsored research partnership center, built a sensor that used electrical impulses to measure leaf thickness, which indicates water content. BioServe partnered with AgriHouse Brands Ltd. to test the sensor and found that it not only eliminated guesswork from watering plants but also reduced water use by 25 to 45 percent.
That lettuce was made possible by NASA's vegetable production system, otherwise known as•Veggie, one of the handful of approaches the agency is taking to offset food transport costs and provide astronauts with a nutritious diet on long duration space missions.
In the late 1980s, AgriHouse used BioServe research to develop a method for aeroponic crop production—that is, growing plants suspended in air without soil or media. Plants grown aeroponically require far less water and fertilizer, don’t need pesticide, are much less prone to disease, and grow up to three times faster than plants grown in soil.
Orbital Technologies (ORBITEC), for example,• partnered with Kennedy Space Center• to develop the plant growth system—known as Veggie— that produced this most recent crop of lettuce, as well as its predecessor, the Biomass Production System. Many features of the high-efficiency lighting system the company developed with Kennedy funding have been incorporated into ORBITEC’s commercial offerings.
The space station provides a microgravity environment for researchers to conduct multidisciplinary investigations, for educators to inspire•next generation scientists and engineers, and to serve as a stepping stone to future exploration that was not possible just 15 years ago.
Not only does its greenhouse lighting technology take advantage of the efficiency of LEDs, which waste almost no energy on heat, but its variable light output allows it to be adapted to specific plant species at specific growth stages. It can also sense the presence of plant tissue and only power nearby LEDs. Overall, it uses about 60 percent less energy than traditional plant lighting systems.
ISSAC, unaffected by cloud cover, captures frequent images of the Earth in visible and infrared light, which are necessary for relaying information on biomass. Biomass images provide data on crop growth, and more biomass means more crop yield potential. Delivering these images to farmers more rapidly than previous remote sensing technology, Wagner called ISSAC a “tool we can use as a reference to be able to make better decisions and by doing that, our farm is more profitable, and that to me is very important.”
While early LEDs came to NASA’s attention as a potential light source for plant growth, the National Space Biomedical Research Program (NSBRI), a NASA-funded group of institutions, took notice of the fact that the lamps could produce specific wavelengths of light. The team that was growing plants at Kennedy built LED prototypes for an NSBRI team that used it for a research project, discovering that different wavelengths of light helped test subjects stay awake or fall asleep. Soon after, several scientists involved in the project brought their expertise to the company Lighting Science, which•developed a line•of DefinityDigital light bulbs for home use. Different bulbs can suppress or increase melatonin production in the brain to induce wakefulness or sleepiness, respectively. Another is used to grow plants, and a fourth bulb is designed for outdoor lighting in coastal areas, where it won’t disorient sea turtles, as normal outdoor lighting tends to. AiroCide units are also commonly used to clean the air and prevent the spread of disease in hospitals, doctors’ offices, laboratories, schools, hospitals, and daycare centers. By 2013, a home version became available and immediately caught on.
This is one of the many examples of the impact of space station research on the lives of the people on Earth. With its 15-year anniversary in 2013 and continued operations until at least 2020, and likely beyond, there are many more benefits to look forward to from space station research. With collaboration from the original international partnerships to the insights of inventors and integrators of the research and technology on the ground, we can anticipate continued space station benefits for humanity.
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What will tomorrow look like? Our world is at its limits and by 2050 the Earth’s resources would be critically depleted to the extent where the need for an alternative form of resource would be crucial to sustain life as we know of now. The ever increasing human need dictates a future brighter than today and the quest for a better tomorrow is never ending. Our tiny planet sits on a vast sea of resources including millions of asteroids which bathe in the Sun’s free energy. The same rocks that could fall from the sky also contain everything we could ever need. The term “asteroid” is misunderstood and often used vaguely. Billions of years ago, Earth and other planets began to condense, dust became rocks and rocks became building blocks of planets. Most of these were knocked into deep space, or aggregated to become our solar system’s planets and moons, but a few hundred million never got big enough and are essentially little chunks of protoplanet. Millions of these, about 4% the mass of the moon altogether are trapped in a belt past Mars, where Jupiter’s gravity keeps them from condensing. The first one to be discovered back in 1801, CERES, is generally not even considered an asteroid anymore, but a dwarf planet like Pluto. It is about four times more massive that the next most massive asteroid, VESTA, and masses about half of what the rest of the asteroid belt combined masses. So, Ceres and the other famous asteroid are not particularly representative of what is meant as an asteroid. So, why harvest these tiny protoplanets? When large planets like Earth form and cool, all their heavy elements like metals move towards the core because of its density. But asteroids are so small and light, they never quite formed layers and those rare heavy elements are more accessible. Harvesting the riches of asteroids might be essential for establishing future space settlements, powering interplanetary travel and building docking stations. So, why spend $24000 to send a kilogram of material to space when they can be mined in space How to know which asteroid to mine? At the moment near earth asteroid or NEA are the potential targets. Ground based infrared telescopes and spectrometers are used to see which minerals exist in the structure of an NEA. Different minerals absorb light at different wavelengths and this phenomenon is the principle of identifying a suitable asteroid. Standard radar can also be reflected off an asteroid and can be used to study the surface of that NEA.
Asteroid composition is anything but monolithic and falls into three categories- C-type, S-type and M-type, short for carbon, silicate and metal. C-type, carbon rich asteroids are the most common making up 75% of asteroids, while S-type, silicate or stony asteroids comes in a distant second at 17%. M-type or metallic asteroids are much less numerous. When mining is concerned, M-types are mostly nickel and iron, neither of which are particularly desired to bring back to Earth, but which would be valuable for building projects in space. There are also several sub-types of asteroids and two different classifications systems. The asteroid belt is anything but the only place to find an asteroid nor the nearest place to find them. It is not unusual for two asteroids of different types to blunder into each other and merge to be somewhere in between these types. C-types asteroids impress with idea of finding mountains of gold are quite valuable themselves. They contain lots of water, which is never a bad thing to find in outer space, but they also contain plenty of life-useful elements and particularly noteworthy is phosphorus which is quite difficult to find on Earth in concentration and a major bottleneck on agriculture. So if asteroid mining ever gets heavily developed and cheap, that is the element which might be brought back. In June, 2015, an asteroid UW-158 shot by Earth. It is approximately 442m X 1011m in size and according to estimations it could have 90 million tonnes of Platinum in it and in contrast only 192 tonnes of Platinum have ever been found on Earth. It was not visible to the naked eye but it came very close, around 2.4 million kilometres and was added to NASA’s Near Earth Object Human Space Flight Accessible Target Study (NHATS). This makes UW-158 the most suitable asteroid for a first attempt in asteroid mining. Lunar regolith or lunar soil 3D printing is already being practiced. In the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, 2016, Planetary Resources in collaboration with 3D Systems developed the first ever direct metal print using asteroid metals. The prototype was 3D printed from an actual asteroid that was pulverized, powdered and processed on 3D System’s new printer. The meteorite (former asteroid) was composed of iron, nickel and cobalt which are similar to refinery grade steel. In long term, there is so much construction material out there in the asteroids, and so conveniently distributed that it would be perfect for the construction of large numbers of rotating habitats or other megastructures. The asteroid belt is well suited to serve as the beginning of a modest Dyson sphere or Dyson swarm. These sorts of habitats could house quadrillions of people just by hollowing out asteroids and reshaping them into rotating habitats. This could truly be the next step for a viable future.
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From all the video games to the Martian movie, it has always been a fantasy for us humans to colonize in this red planet that is probably the closest place possible for humans to survive and grow in this entire solar system of ours. Mars has a lot of potential in comparison to other planets when it comes to sustaining life forms. It is believed and also there are evidences that this red planet once has running rivers and water bodies on its surface, which then naturally relates it to having some form of life. However with passage of time and with alarming values of green house gases all the water was evaporated away and lost along time due to extreme weather conditions. Elon musk just announced his plan for colonizing mars. He boldly proposes that he could have humans on mars by 2024 and use the same technology to travel anywhere around the world in less than an hour! So he basically addressed the whole problem of travelling to outer space and colonizing the planet by first developing a proper propulsion system that is still not capable and economical enough. All this is going to be done using a spacecraft code named the BFR , in a presentation at the international astronomical congress in Australia, musk outlined his plan. The BFR would stand 100m tall with 31 engines to lift a payload of more than 4000 tons into space, each of these engines will have multiple engines built in, an attempt to reduce the probability of failure towards zero. The BFR is slightly larger than the 7V rocket , which propelled astronauts to the moon during the Apollo missions. To give an idea, it can carry a cargo payload with a living space that is 8 stories tall and hold more volume than airbus A380s passenger cabin. It also has a fin so that it could be easily controlled. The best part about this plan and the rocket is that, this could be reusable after each trip and it has the ability to come back and forth the two planets and thereby saving a lot of money. The current rocket technology restricts that as you can’t reuse the rockets over and over thereby wasting a millions of dollars. Musk finds this absolutely unacceptable to waste all these sophisticated technology and money in the outer space. So his idea, even though would require a lot more of initial capital, would still be much less than any average space mission because of its reusability. The same technology can be used as a public transports, where it can easily replace airplanes and can reach any corner of the world in less than an hour. The first ship to go to Mars, Musk said, would be named Heart of Gold as a tribute to the ship powered by an “infinite improbability drive” from Douglas Adams’ science fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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Similar modules, also launched using reusable boosters, would remain in Earth’s orbit to refuel the interplanetary craft to be able to use multiple trips, including to other parts of the solar system such as , a moon of Saturn on which Nasa’s Cassini mission recently•found evidence•of a polar subsurface water ocean that could harbor life. Musk also outlined a system by which fuel could be synthesized on Mars from water and carbon dioxide in order to fuel return journeys to Earth. 26 BFR space craft would revolve the earth in a lot and after every 26 months when mars and earth comes in alignment all the 26 spacecraft would start the 8 month long trip for Mars. During each such trip, passenger and cargo will be dropped off. Landing humans safely on mars is the biggest technical undertaking of all time. Space x Musks’s company would be using their reusable self landing rocket boosters in this case. According to human standards mars will kill us. It has a poisonous greenhouse gases which is unbreathable air and most of its water is in subsurfaced ice deposits. So there is a lot of work to be done to make all of this a reality, but it seems it just could be possible. A 2016 paper by NASA explained how one can build a colony on mars. According to NASA , “the currently known resources on mars is massive, including extensive quantities of water and CO2 and therefore CH2, and O2 for life support ,fuels and plastics and much more. Recent technologies combined with the vast natural resources should enable serious, pre- and post human arrival.” In its Mars transit configuration, BFR would have 40 cabins holding up to 100 people, with large common and entertainment areas, central storage, a galley, and a solar storm shelter for what would be a 3 to 6 month journey. In the fuel tank there would be 240 tons of methane, which SpaceX advocates using rather than liquid hydrogen for rocket propellant, and 860 tons of liquid oxygen. Some suggest a colony could be built on Mars using 3D printers. But it’s game on. He said developing and building the BFR is already happening. “The tooling for the main tanks has been ordered, the facility is being built, we’ll start construction of the first ship around the second quarer of next year, in about 6 to 9 months we should start building the first ship.”
SpaceX already has remarkable achievements under its belt. It’s created rockets that just don’t burn up in the upper atmosphere. They land so they can be used again. There’s been 16 successful Falcon 9 landings. And the ability of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to land on a barge is breathtaking. No one else has achieved that. NASA said in a statement that it welcomed Musk’s plans and says it has made “extraordinary progress” developing a plan for sustainable Mars exploration, building partnerships in both the public and private sectors.
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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” The infamous speech from the late former US president John F. Kennedy had ignited the general minds with an idea; the idea of space exploration. Till now we know so little about space and especially our immediate neighbours- The Moon. India’s space adventures have been successful over the years. On 5th November 2013, ISRO became the first organization to launch a probe in the martian orbit in its first attempt. On 18th November 2008, with its moon impact probe’s Chandra Altitudinal Composition (CHACE), India became the only country to establish a solid proof of the presence of water in the Earth’s atmosphere. Also with NASA’s M3 on board the Chandrayaan-1, water on the surface of the moon was successfully discovered. This has once again sparked an eagerness to learn and study astronomy amongst the Indian youth. A team has now risen with the hopes and ambitions of every Indian. TeamIndus is the only Indian team to participate in the Google Lunar XPrize. A competition that challenges any privately funded organization to land a rover on the surface of the moon. TeamIndus is one of the five teams standing in the competition. On January 2015, the team was awarded a $1 million prestigious landing milestone prize. On 31st December 2010, the last day of the registration, Rahul Narayan and his small
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team decided to take a leap of faith and registered. From then it was no looking back as the team has crossed various hurdles and is all set to launch in early 2018. The team has grown gradually with young enthusiast and veteran scientist joining together to reach one goal- The Moon. The mission is a 3, 84,400 km and 24 Earth days planned journey. TeamIndus has designed a custom rover the Ek Choti si Asha (ECA) which will be housed in 600kg spacecraft. The spacecraft will run on 240 W solar panels fitted to only one side and a 28V 24A battery. The spacecraft will have a rocket engine and 16 thrusters, a propellant and oxidiser tank and the experimental payloads. Fuel will constitute for two-thirds of the weight. The spacecraft will travel inside the ISRO Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-XL from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. At 150km from the Earth’s surface the nose cone would open and the spacecraft will be injected into an elliptical geocentric orbit. Now, the spacecraft will propel itself to an even higher orbit before System Controls timely projects the spacecraft for a trans-lunar injection. This is the phase where the spacecraft leaves the Earth’s orbit and travels towards the Moon’s orbit guided by the Moon’s gravity. It will reach a maximum speed of 10.5 kms-1. After 110 hours and 180km short the spacecraft would fire its thrusters to brake and align itself with the Moon’s orbit. After settling into the selenocentric orbit, it would periodically propel itself to reduced orbits till it reaches S4. At lunar dawn, the landing is initiated. Communication is 1.3 second delayed and so the whole landing process has been automated. The spacecraft has laser sensors which will guide the landing process. The 900 seconds of the final descent will see the velocity drop from 1.69 kms-1 to 0.8 kms-1. Terminal descent will initiate at 100 m to 3m at which point the main engine is shut down and touch down is achieved at the vast lava plain of Mare Imbrium.
Four hours after the touchdown, the moon dust would settle and ECA would roll out of the spacecraft to travel atleast 500m and send high-definition images to the five Earth stations which would then transmit it to TeamIndus control centre. The ambitious project is just months away from reality with the PSLV stated to be launched in late 2017. The latest drop test on 13th October showed fruitful results in vertical and horizontal velocity simulation. The team is in its peak and is working with utmost dedication to raise the tricolour on the Moon’s surface. As the team says, this would be .
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“I live like-like I should, like I am supposed to, like a young 29-year-old World Champion should live.� Conor is undoubtedly the man who brought Mixed Martial Arts to everyone as Muhammad Ali brought boxing and made it Global. In short time the success that he achieved and the
dream like events that fall perfectly at the right time from the start of his career, has made him the man who he is today and his story has received attention by everyone from all across the globe. The word Iconic on the date will not at all be early to use considering his age.
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“Saying I am going to do something. Pointing it out there, for the world to see and then going out and doing it. There is no better feeling in world then that!” In truth the term “Vocal” will be an understatement for him as he has been speaking without a leash on the camera from day 1, embracing the title of “The Notorious” and that’s why his fans love him so much. Before the match, McGregor pulls out the opponent’s title belt from them and flaunts it claiming that he has already won it in front of the world in pre-match press conferences even before stepping in the ring for the title match. This builds a great atmosphere for the audience all over the world but the thing is that he builds a lot of expectation, many souls worldwide counting on him. Well for atmosphere it is great but what about the man who has to make it happen on the main day. There are a lot of examples where fighters on the day of fight got scared to such an extent that they don’t show up in the event, their arms go numb and can’t think.
Just because of the pressure that has grown on him. For McGregor it’s the opposite. It’s not to play safe and run away from the enormous pressure that comes with big matches, especially title matches. For him, he is not here to just play around, he had imagined him on the top right at the day when he started in UFC and for him the real fear is not to be able to do so. The fear of not taking the opportunity to hit the big shots of the sport was something that was in him, “I will rather shoot and miss than not shoot at all, that’s what fear me” and this is not the only story in which McGregor proved his fear wrong and raised to the top, there was another early event in his career which could have changed his present and he could not have seen all the success that he has no, only if he would have given up to his fears. Before signing his UFC contract in his early career, after a defeat which broke his win streak, Conor came to know that one of his teammates wouldn’t be able to compete anymore because of an injury which made Conor fear for himself and made him think about leaving MMA forever. “What am I gonna do if something happens and can do it no more, so I had packed it again.” For a fighter his career is filled with fear. A person places his life, family, future and everything on risk. Fear will be a small word to describe it. Then that is not all, there is another level of terror which one has to overcome by stepping into the ring and trying to survive in there with someone who will not think even once before trying to break each and every bone of your body. In real it is all about fear in sports. Opponent trying to get inside each-others head and trying to make a dominant image of one in others mind. Those were the fears that came upon Conor that made him step back. But after couple of weeks he got himself together through his hesitation and bounced back into the sport. Rest is history. Conor McGregor has surely made a big impact in sports by winning important titles in the MMA and at the same time rising as a UFC star and creating a world wide following. With the attitude that he has, only one thing can be said that more is to come and lot more is to be unravelled.
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Some people may live lives devoid of joy, happiness, and pleasure, but no one escapes the experience of fear. Fear is an utterly unavoidable emotion. The extent and range of it varies from person to person, but the emotion is the same. Fear limits you and your vision. But, why not transform fear into freedom, now that sounds great, doesn’t it? Even famous players we look up to as role models, who inspire us to do the unusual and potray an example of power, have something or the other they fear within.
David Beckham
Two-time gold-medal winning swimmer, Rebecca Adlington isn't afraid of competition—just any and all forms of potentially dangerous sea creatures. She has admitted that she has never been to the ocean yet.
Everything must be as it should, otherwise David Beckham will not be comfortable. The English soccer star is afflicted with a form of OCD, which requires him to have everything perfect. It's not a strange fear as much as it is a need for orderliness; even his hair needs to be perfect at all times. Even great players can be afraid of the smallest of things, there's nothing odd about that. Michael Cuddyer is afraid of Bees and wasps. Serena Williams is
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Rafael Nadal, the tennis pro has OCD, which manifests itself in multiple ways. Some being the irrational fear of dogs, storms, motor bikes, spiders and sleeping in the dark. Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed that his biggest fear is to die a young man. The 30year-old Real Madrid superstar is regarded as one of the greatest football players on the planet, but his global status does not prevent regular fears like a common man.
Rafael Nadal
A miraculously inspirational case is that of Michael Phelps, who used to be terrified of putting his head under the water when he first began swimming. According
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to Phelps, it took him years to get past his fear of submerging his head while swimming. And now, Michael Phelps holds the record for the most Olympic medals won, which is 28, of all time. John Cena, the American professional wrestler claimed to have Acrophobia; the fear of heights. Cena stated that he had to overcome the phobia as he was required to jump off of a 60 feet cliff for the filming of his movie “The Reunion�. Is it fair and justifiable to be motivated by fear? I say yes. Fear can be a hindrance, or it can be a motivator. If we let it, fear will hold us back forever. If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Rebecca Adlington
NASA discovers 20 possible Earthlike exoplanets A new analysis of data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revealed 20 exoplanet candidates, which may be habitable, according to astronomers. The planets orbit Sun-like stars, with the fastest orbit taking 18 Earth days to be completed and the slowest taking 395 days. The discovery would be confirmed by ground-based observatories or the Hubble Space Telescope, said Kepler scientists.
We have to go to space to save Earth: Jeff Bezos Amazon CEO and Founder of aerospace startup Blue Origin Jeff Bezos has said that we have to go to space to save Earth. "We kind of have to hurry" in order to achieve that goal, he added. Bezos also talked about space entrepreneurship and highlighted that in order to have startups in space, the cost of admission must be lowered.
Indian space telescope measures star parameters in Taurus India's first multi-wavelength space telescope AstroSat has performed the most sensitive measurement of X-ray polarisation of a pulsar, fastspinning neutron star, in the Taurus constellation. The pulsar powers the Crab Nebula that formed after a supernova explosion, which was recorded by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054. AstroSat was launched in September 2015 by ISRO aboard its PSLV rocket.
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The industrial visit to Coorg and Bangalore was an out and out wonderful and enriching experience for the budding Electrical and Electronics Engineering students of SRM University. A grand total of 107 students came forward for the industrial visit to enrich some hands-on practical knowledge in the field of electrical and electronics engineering. The students visited Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) and JVS electronics both situated in Bangalore. They were accompanied by 4 faculty members from the Electrical and Electronics department namely: Dr C Subramani , Mr Vinod Kumar, Mrs A Geetha and Mrs Thamizh Thendral. The industrial visit to the factories/industries not only made the students aware of what processes actually take place in the factory but they also learnt how the different components underwent complex processes in detail and also how it was manufactured and put together was made clear. The 5 day visit not only included the technical area but also the recreational one, where students went to various places in Bangalore and Coorg for sight-seeing such as Istan temple, Bamboo forest and Mandalpatti in Brahmagiri range. The students also participated in various activities such as rafting which was one of the most adventurous and enthralling part of the journey followed by a dance night by the bonfire under starry moonlit sky of Coorg.
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WORKSHOP ON HARDWARE IN THE LOOP SIMULATION The Electrical and electronics engineering association of SRM University arranged a workshop on HIL on Friday, the 22nd of September 2017. It was a national level workshop which was conducted in association with the Typhoon Hil, the Indian partner of a Swiss based company. The workshop was conducted in Simulation lab-3 of Main campus. The workshop began at 10:40 am and was conducted by Mr. Shashank Kumar and Mr. Rajesh Parera. The workshop was attended by students and teachers alike. The participants were people from different universities and colleges around Chennai. Mr. Rajesh Parera took the front stage to introduce the company and the product to the participants out there. The company Typhoon HIL was founded in 2008 with its headquarters situated in Cambridge Massachusetts. The application of the product ranges from Power electronics to smart grids and electrical vehicles. The company is responsible for constructing and marketing simulators. The participants were then shown the HIL 402, a simulator from the 4th series. This product has 16 channel oscilloscope, advanced machine solver and 20ns sampling time. The participants where then circulated with a CD which contained the files necessary for the installation of this software. Once all had received it, Mr. Shashank made familiarised the participants with the software and later demonstrated a few pre constructed circuits in his laptop. The workshop ended at 4 pm.
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Here are the Association Core members. They will be in charge of the student body of the Electrical and Electronics department PRESIDENT
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CO-ORDINATORS :
DR. K. VIJAYAKUMAR Ms T.M. THAMIZH THENDRAL Ms S. USHA Ms A. GEETHA
VICE PRESIDENT :
DIVI BHARADWAJ
TECHNICAL :
SNEHA BHATTACHARYA PRATYUSH TRIPATHI
SECRETARY
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T.H.H. THAPASE
JOINT SEC
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TARANA KAOVASIA
PR AND MEDIA`
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SHWETA KURIAN
AYUSH SINGH
CULTURAL
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PRATYUSH SHUKLA
RAJAN KUMAR
ADARSH MURALI FINANCE :
MANOJ PENMETSA
SPORTS
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ANAMIKA RANJAN
P PAVANI
CREATIVE
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DEVARCHANA DEV
DOCUMENTATION :
AISHWARYA SINGH
RITURAJ
PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
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EMCEE
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SIDDHARTH BASU
DISCIPLINE
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AMANDEEP BHARDWAJ
SPONSORSHIP
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AKHIL SHAH
SOHAM MANDAL
AKSHAT AGARWAL
NEHAL CHANDAK
PUBLICITY
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PIYUSH KUMAR YADAV
TARUN YADAV
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