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