The Scenario

DPS R.K Puram

Rules and Regulation:

1.       The submission date is one week from the day when you receive the RFP; we won’t consider any submission after the 7^th day’s break.

2.       The proposal has to be of 10-20 slides and must be provided as a hard copy as well as a soft copy (CD).

3.       We are not interested in any formulas. We know s=ut+1/2 at^2 .  If you are very keen provide the necessary formulas and other logics in the appendix after the main slides.

Letter from the competition organizers:

Dear Participant,

If you are Reading this you are most probably one of the 15 members qualifying the first round.

We, team of DPS RKP, congratulate you on reaching this level. The first level required knowledge and logic to clear. But to successfully give the proposal to this RFP along with knowledge and logic you will also require innovation, imagination and the most importantly you require practicality.

With this we present you the RFP, which requires you to design a space settlement. You will be in a future year; you may use technologies which are still under development but try to limit yourself to the technologies which are sure to be developed in the year you are in.

Thanks,

DPS RKP, ARSSDC Team

The Scenario,

Year: 2055

Rise in Global temperatures since 2010: 6.4 °C

Oil Reserves Estimated remaining years: 1 year(s)-5 years

Coal Reserves Estimated remaining years: 5 years-10 years

Oil Prices: 967$ per Barrel (from 98.6$ per Barrel in 2010)

The world is facing an energy crisis with the hydrogen combustion and sustainable nuclear technologies still in development phase and most of the people are switching to electric automobiles, the production and demand ratio of electricity is only rising. The world is at the brink of a huge blackout.

On the other hand, Global temperature rise has made the top headlines of every news channel.  12% percent of land mass has already submerged under and the sea by continuous Tsunamis hitting every alternative year.

In an emergency meeting at the UN headquarters, the foundation society was summoned to discuss the options available to save the world from the energy crisis as well as global warming. It was decided that the only solution was the launch of the Sotiras (Greek of savior).

Sotiras will have one main unit and two sub units.

The functions of the main unit will be:

1.       Control and Coordinate the other two units

2.       Carry out Data transfer and Communication to Earth and the sub units.

3.       Provide nice and pleasant environment for 2000 residents.

4.       Will report to the Earth.

The functions of the sub units will be:

1.       One of them will act as a solar shield which will reduce the total sunlight received by the Earth and hence reverse all the effects of Global warming.

2.       The other sub unit will be a cluster of SPS(Solar Power Satellites) Situated at the suitable langrage points which will absorb Sunlight, Convert to Radio Waves capable of reverse conversion to Electricity and will beam it back to the main unit.

The Company,

Your Company, Vereinigten Flugfahrten is aerospace company settled in Houston, USA. Its specialties are Space launch, In Orbit Vehicle Launch facilities and in a recent breakthrough it has patented a new technology known as Garbage Electro Blast system which promises to recycle waste up to 93%*.

Important Details to the contractor,

The first settlement starts with nothing. In Earth orbit there is vacuum, a variety of environmental hazards, unrealized access to extraterrestrial resources, and solar energy. There is no scheduled transportation service, no port to put into for supplies or repairs, no grocery store, no refueling station, no building supply store, no dirt to grow food in, no water, nothing.

The situation for the Earth is urgent. The only question for the designers is HOW to get it operating quickly. We start with the assumption that Sotiras doesn't have to be beautiful or elegant. It has to be functional, it has to be self-sufficient, it has to be comfortable enough that the people living there won't go crazy, and it has to provide facilities for building the solar shield. Anything else is fluff.

Other details about the competition,

If you do not understand where to start, what to do, feel free to ask us by posting a comment on rkpspace.blogspot.com or emailing us at space.citizens@gmail.com.