Indian, Pakistani students excited about winning space competition

[EjazR]

Indian, Pakistani students excited about winning space competition| ummid.com

IANS
New Delhi: It was like a dream come true for Sara Afzal, a student of class 11 from Lahore, when her team won the Asia Space Settlement Design Competition defeating 15 other teams with their innovative design to settle over 10,000 people in a city in space in 2055.

Sara is part of a group of 36 children from India and Pakistan who will join 12 other finalist teams from around the world in July this year to compete at the 16th Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am that our team has been adjudged winner in Asia. It’s recognition of our hard work that we have put in the last six months. We worked for 18 to 22 hours in a day while preparing for the initial project,” said Sara, a student of Lahore Grammar School.

US ambassador Timothy J.Roemer Tuesday met the students and lauded their efforts.

“This group of Indian and Pakistani students are together designing the future of our civilization - one with few limitations of geographical boundaries,” said Roemer.

The competition was organised by US Space agency NASA and Boeing.

The students were asked to present their ideas based on which three teams - Amity International School in Saket, Lahore Grammar School and Little Flowers School in Hyderabad - were selected for the next round.

“All the three teams were invited to Gurgaon and were randomly given proposals on space settlement. The students were given 21 hours to come out with their proposals and Amity School and Lahore Grammar School won the competition,” said B.P Pandey, guide of Amity School.

An excited Palash Gupta, a class 11 student of Amity school, said: “We were given a project to make a mobile space settlement between Earth and Mars. We were divided into five groups - structure planning, operations, human engineering, automation and marketing. It was a tough task but real fun and we worked as a team to provide a winning solution.”

The students have already started preparing for the final test and are hopeful to win the competition.

“We have started our research for the final competition although the topic will be given randomly but we should know the properties of various planets and how we can construct our city with all modern facilities anywhere in space,” said Sanjana Mohan, another student.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

China and Pakistan will surely be colonizing Moon in next 20-30 years

We know US will be paying debt for next 50 years unless they start ww4

 

[garibnawaz]

China and Pakistan will surely be colonizing Moon in next 20-30 years

We know US will be paying debt for next 50 years unless they start ww4

First launch your own Pakistani SLV then talk. Unless you also think that whatever is Chinese is also Pakistani.

GB

 

[garibnawaz]

Indian, Pakistani students excited about winning space competition| ummid.com

IANS
New Delhi: It was like a dream come true for Sara Afzal, a student of class 11 from Lahore, when her team won the Asia Space Settlement Design Competition defeating 15 other teams with their innovative design to settle over 10,000 people in a city in space in 2055.

Sara is part of a group of 36 children from India and Pakistan who will join 12 other finalist teams from around the world in July this year to compete at the 16th Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am that our team has been adjudged winner in Asia. It’s recognition of our hard work that we have put in the last six months. We worked for 18 to 22 hours in a day while preparing for the initial project,” said Sara, a student of Lahore Grammar School.

US ambassador Timothy J.Roemer Tuesday met the students and lauded their efforts.

“This group of Indian and Pakistani students are together designing the future of our civilization - one with few limitations of geographical boundaries,” said Roemer.

The competition was organised by US Space agency NASA and Boeing.

The students were asked to present their ideas based on which three teams - Amity International School in Saket, Lahore Grammar School and Little Flowers School in Hyderabad - were selected for the next round.

“All the three teams were invited to Gurgaon and were randomly given proposals on space settlement. The students were given 21 hours to come out with their proposals and Amity School and Lahore Grammar School won the competition,” said B.P Pandey, guide of Amity School.

An excited Palash Gupta, a class 11 student of Amity school, said: “We were given a project to make a mobile space settlement between Earth and Mars. We were divided into five groups - structure planning, operations, human engineering, automation and marketing. It was a tough task but real fun and we worked as a team to provide a winning solution.”

The students have already started preparing for the final test and are hopeful to win the competition.

“We have started our research for the final competition although the topic will be given randomly but we should know the properties of various planets and how we can construct our city with all modern facilities anywhere in space,” said Sanjana Mohan, another student.

I dont know why we are compiting with a nation who dont even have a proper space program. Pakistan is yet to launch SLV.

Even muslim countries like Indonesia and Turkey are relying on India for their satelite launch.

GB

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I dont know why we are compiting with a nation who dont even have a proper space program. Pakistan is yet to launch SLV.

Even muslim countries like Indonesia and Turkey are relying on India for their satelite launch.

GB

Last time I checked out Ballistic Missiles are touching space edges ^_^ I am sure a bit bigger - version of one of our prized assets can get teh job done, but since China is big brother we can wait and share things....

Its more harder to develop a system Surface to Surface which can hit targets with in 10 meter accuracy .... sending out a settelite is peace of cake - just reach maximum escape velocity , easy stuff


A space rocket IS .... a bigger Ballistic missile - with a civilian pay load instead of war head....

Also we are developing next generation space traveling platforms with Turkey/China/Iran and ourselves so its probbly is too advance for anything done by any other country close to our borders.

We tend to work , with others, we like cooperation - we are not like the little brat kid in school that does the homework and does not shares the info with other kids , we like to share info with our friends at school , and this way we all get A grades instead of 100 + failiures and 1 successful launch , we do want to be self sufficient in the delivery system -

 

[mrwarrior006]

Its more harder to develop a system Surface to Surface which can hit targets with in 10 meter accuracy .... sending out a settelite is peace of cake - just reach maximum escape velocity , easy stuff

WHO WILLL DECIDE TRAJECTORY WHICH MEANS 1000% ACCURACY MY DEAR FRIEND

 

[mrwarrior006]

A space rocket IS .... a bigger Ballistic missile - with a civilian pay load instead of war head...

YUP GIVEN WARHEAHD IS ON TIP OF IT

 

[third eye]

China and Pakistan will surely be colonizing Moon in next 20-30 years

We know US will be paying debt for next 50 years unless they start ww4

How is this remotely connected to the topic ?

Children from India & pak have done well , instead of commending them we ( who have achieved little on earth) want to colonise the moon and carry our differences there too.

 

[EjazR]

Read the article, its about Indian and Pakistani school kids co-operating together to come up with designs for space settlement design. It has nothing to do with actual space technology or co-operation.

Appreciate the fact that these kids are working together and gives hope for an an optimistic view of the future.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I don't know but we already launched our settlites in 1990 lol sorry if you were not paying attention

Right now we are more focused on perfecting out Missiles

If you send out anyobject with a certain velocity its automatically goes into orbit piyare ...if you exceed that velocity then you can go to moon and come back

If your reentry is in a capsule , its really nothing special gravity pulls anything towards itself -

There is no rocket science involved its all , to do with how much velocity you can gain with your rocket and if you have enough fuel to launch something into orbit

Right now our plan is that since China already has the rockets (space ones) why waste our time we can help out with engineering efforts , and bring in Turkish knowledge with avionics and commuinication systems....
...
There are bigger plans to come in next 10-20 years.....we already have the rockets/missiles

Nothing can be bigger then seeing china establishing a base on Moon and we can also bring our flag and place it along side china at some point ....


Alliance with China - and simple as that - I am sure all kids will get a chance to develop something special there -

What the point of wasting your energy in contest and to give up all your ideas , and NASA or other agency steals your ideas - you get a lollypop in end


As for our space program , our missiles/rockets are already breaking the space barrier and the reentrying back in at atmosphere and hiting targets on ground ....techologically that is alot harder then just sending something into orbit ...

 

[mrwarrior006]

If you send out anyobject with a certain velocity its automatically goes into orbit piyare ...if you exceed that velocity then you can go to moon and come back

u are sayin a vehicle without steering is enough to travel correct me if iam wrong

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

WHO WILLL DECIDE TRAJECTORY WHICH MEANS 1000% ACCURACY MY DEAR FRIEND

All the calculations are found in library books - you just need to look at the data from previous declassified documets

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

u are sayin a vehicle without steering is enough to travel correct me if iam wrong

You can send a marvati into orbit , we prefer the normal mechanism to send in warheads/payload/settelites what ever ...by normal mechanism

Rocket Launch , acceleration, reach specific altitude, goes into space, and reenters - back ... and lands in specific area. Very simple , you maintain your velocity to stay in orbit you decelerate and you fall back to earth

If we want to modify that with settelite payloads, just need to send the rocket/ballistic missile to specific altitude , the capsule/settelite is released and the rest of the missile falls back to earth ...some where on manmohan singh's castles or into sea...

For the lunar colonization , I figured might as well cooperate with Turkey and Chiana and iran - why just work solo its more fun to collaborate

Nothing escapes earth's gravitational force , it takes extra boosters with fuel with secondary launch in space to keep accelerating the rocket to escape velocity ...

Nothing is impossible for china , we can also achive that but its better to go there in group with our friends -


Also if you are confused about reentry trajectory , well its the same logic when we use that in our missile technology to pin point where our Missile will hit a target ... with in
1-10 meter error margin. I am sure we can use same logic to determine where the debris will fall - after we are done...

 

[notsuperstitious]

There is no rocket science involved

That about sums it up.

 

[mrwarrior006]

All the calculations are found in library books - you just need to look at the data from previous declassified documets

tnx man
my college tooo has an library book