PRE2018 4 Group9

Group members

Rob de Mooij 1017797
Ilja van Oort 1001232
Sara Tjon 1247050
Thomas Pilaet 0999458
Joris Zandeberge 1231962

Problem statement

The amount of collisions between satellites and space debris increases exponentially, due to the growing amount of space debris.
Chance that a satellite collides with a piece of debris bigger than 1 cm in a year:
2007: 17-20%, 2010: 50%
Consequences: no internet, no gps, costs a lot of money, space travel may become more difficult/impossible

Objectives

• Analyzing the available methods to remove space debris
  
• Find methods on how to prevent new space debris (governance)
  
• Further develop a promising method
  

Users and their requirements

Users:

• Satellite owners (governments, space associations)
  

Requirements:

• re-usable
  
• quick to implement
  
• hard to abuse
  
• versatile (for both smaller and larger debris)
  
• autonomous
  
• durable
  
• affordable
  

Approach, milestone and deliverables

Approach:
Reading papers to get a good picture of the current problem and the state-of-the-art technology
Analyzing and comparing possible methods for space debris removal by looking at their pros and cons
Further development of a (combination of) promising technique(s) with a model or prototype.

Milestones:
Week 2: Determined subject; defined plan
Week 3: Find state of the art methods; finished literature search
Week 4: Determine promising method(s)
Week 5: Basic model
Week 6: Final model
Week 7: Results model, implement model in USE, finalized wiki
Week 8: Presentation

Deliverables

• Wiki page
  
• Presentation
  
• Model/prototype
  

Who is doing what?

Literature study : All
Literature analysis : All
Modelling : Rob/Ilja/Sara
Prototyping : Rob/Ilja/Sara
Updating wiki : All
Implementation USE : Joris/Thomas
Visualizing data/results : Joris/Thomas
Presentation : Joris/Thomas