Space Light - Space Apps Challenge

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A World Away

Your challenge is to identify pandemic social problems that may have collateral effects in remote locations (such as space). How will you prepare for the collateral effects in remote locations, and/or evaluate on-Earth support and remote location risks, including psychological and technical risks?

The Chamber of Oz

Summary

The main focus of the project is to reduce psychological and health concerns about pathogens in packages or materials received. We aim to achieve this by providing an Ozone Purification System device. The project provides biosafety and security for a desired package, allowing people to handle materials without concern. Moreover, considering that a number of missions were compromised due to different kinds of contamination, it can also provide an extra safety measure to lower the risks involved.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project addresses this challenge by taking out the psychological and health concerns about pathogens on the external surface of packages. It provides biosafety and security when receiving said package by a thorough ozone cleaning process. Therefore, it's a way of popularizing an only-lab device, allowing it to be used in a daily routine which can assist regular people at homes, offices, industries and companies.

How We Developed This Project

During this pandemic, receiving a package always required us to clean it first, or even leaving some aside for the lifespan of SARS-CoV-2 in different surfaces. Facing this constant mission of avoiding a possible infection has caused a big toll in the psychological health of many human beings. Our project main objective is to guarantee the biosafety of packages when they arrive in the destination, easing the receiver concern about any microorganism in the package.

The space agency data used were articles and documents describing compromised missions due to contamination and techniques used to keep most of the material received in facilities as clean as possible. This project has used Fusion 360, Tekla Structures for development. We had some problems during the development, mainly in the search for a viable and original solution to the contamination problems faced through the years. The primary focus was to develop a truck with a container acting like an ozone chamber, but we scrapped this idea and changed it to an ozone chamber to attend the reality in any desired facility.