Asteroid mining offers vital sources for improving human lives and provides opportunities for interplanetary missions and space travel. There are many professional commercial space companies that are only investing billions of dollars on asteroids mining, but prior to that, one condition for asteroid mining could be planetary stations to refuel the pioneers’ spacecraft or human colonies on alien planets; hence, one of the vital sources for these purposes is water. Water can be harvested to split oxygen for breathing and hydrogen for refueling spaceships’ propulsions, and Earth-to-space water payload transporting is extremely expensive; therefore, discovering extraterrestrial water in outer space is economically beneficial. This paper presents a Lunar CubeSat Injector to deliver four 3U CubeSats into Low Lunar Orbit to make a constellation to identify locations of water sources on the Moon by using a THz heterodyne-spectrometer. In sum, this project can help scientists to recognize more water resources for those who will colonize the Moon and for those planning to go beyond it.
Every day 80,000 weather balloons are launched to the Earth’s upper atmosphere with meteorology payloads to provide accurate meteorological data. Meteorological data could be used for airport stations and weather stations. Meanwhile, there are many remote sensing satellites above the Earth’s atmosphere, but balloons are still essential due to increased weather prediction accuracy. Many balloons launch into the atmosphere daily, but it would be a one trip tripe because this balloon goes to the atmosphere then transmits the meteorological data to the ground segment, and that is all no one looks to recycle it, on the other hand, if the balloon could be recycled there would be many financial benefits. This project presents a high altitude meteorological balloon-Cube relative to measuring atmosphere humidity, temperature, air pressure, and a photography payload for surface imaging that ascended up to 20Km altitude Cube reach this altitude will eject box on the ground. The telemetry data are transmitted to the ground station through two communication applications, first using a LoRa based transceiver at which it receives a command from the LoRa ground station and the second one, and payload transmits the data by an SMS in 5min after it lands on the ground. Therefore, it could be recycled. This paper presents a Cube-Balloon fabrication and flight test information to acknowledge this Cube’s feasibility for real meteorological projects.
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