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Gurbir Singh www.astrotalkuk.org
Who am I?Writer and blogger
astrotalkuk.org
@gurbirsingh
The plan
Who Am I?
Space Race
A bit about Mars
Matt The Martian
Human Missions to Mars
New Kids on the Space block
Economics of Space
No Race - No Mars Mission
International Collaboration
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7.30pm, November 12th Randolph Hotel
Oxford, UK
Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot, Al Worden
Talk by Al Worden followed by Q&AAutograph signing (items to buy or
bring your own Moon memorabilia)
Photo opportunitiesAl Worden will be signing
autographs, standing for photographs and be available for a ‘meet and greet’
Science or Science Fiction?
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Optical observations
1877 – Giovani Schiaparelli1894 – Percival Lowell1899 – Nikola Tesla
“He has received communication, he asserts, from out the great void of space: a call from the inhabitants of Mars, or Venus, or some other sister planet! nd, furthermore, noted scientists like Sir Norman Lockyer are disposed to agree with Mr. Tesla in his startling deductions”
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/esp_tesla_12.htm
FictionHG Wells, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, CS Lewis and Robert Heinlein.
Erice Burgess, Harry Turner, Arthur C Clarke
Mars Compared to Earth
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Distance from Sun – 1.5
Diameter - 0.5
Tilt of axis & Length of day – about the same
Length of year – about twice
Gravity – just under 0.5
Mass – 0.1
Atmosphere - 0.01 % - LDSD test
Temperature?
Martian Temperature
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From Earth to Mars
First Visits from Earth
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Flyby/Orbiter1960-2 – Five Soviet attempts. All failed (Sputnik 25 – lander)1964 – Mariner 4 returned 22 images. Next Mariner 6 in 19691999 - Deep Space 2 – Penetrators – failed.2004 – Rosetta – flyby
Landers/Rovers1971 - USSR Mars 31975 - Viking 1&21996 – Pathfinder2003 – Beagle, Spirt & opportunity2008 – Mars Phoenix 2012 – MSL(Curiosity)2014 - Maven and MOM
Status - today?
Successful Landers
Martian Ice
How Mars Kills
High Radiation - Sun and Cosmos.
Low Temperature - Average Temperature on Earth 14C, Mars
- 63C
Low Pressure - Only 1% the density of Earth
Low Gravity - Muscle and Bone weaken.
Oxygen - Not freely available
Water - Subsrface and higher latitudes, recycled urine
Food - Sterile Martian soil.
Power - Solar energy
Matt the Martian
High Radiation - ?
Temperature
Low Pressure - Only 1% the density of Earth
Low Gravity - Muscle and Bone weaken.
Oxygen - Not freely available
Water - Subsurface and higher latitudes, recycled urine
Food - Sterile Martian soil.
Power - Solar energy + RTG
Communicate with Earth - Ares 4 site Schaperalli
Crater 300km
Mission to Mars - Mars One
International OnewayReality Show funded Humans on Mars by 2027
Mission to Mars - Inspiration Mars
Dennis Tito
Announcement - 27 February 2013
Flyby 2018 or 2021 (via Venus)
Privately funded. Will cost $2billion $100m of his own money.
Plans not mature yet.
NASA
NASAOrion Spacecraft & Space Launch System
New kids on the Space block
• Brazil - Astronaut training, building and operating satellites
• South Korea - Launched its own satellite from its own launcher in 2013
• Iran - Placed a rat, turtle and worms into orbit in 2010. Claims of suborbital launch using a monkey.
• Israel - Build, launch and operate own satellites• India - Own launcher, Remote Sensing, a version
of GPS, Communication Satellites, Space exploration and Science
Nasa & SpaceX
ISRO : MOM
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Space Exploration & Poverty
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http://www.census.gov/how/infographics/poverty_measure-how.html
Global Space Budget
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The global space economy grew by 4% in 2013 and 9% in 2015
The UK space industry grew strongly even during recession.
Dean increasing - Space based Services (GPS, Mobile communication, Satellite TV, Space tourism..?
increasing number of countries developing space programs -national
Global Space Budget
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No Race - No Mars Mission
Motivation• Cold War / World War II• Commercial• Extraterrestrial threat?
Paradigm Shift - New technology• Space elevator• Non chemical propulsion• Single stage to orbit
Comming Up
2016 - Insight -
ESA
2016 - Exo
Mars program -
A series of
program
International Collaboration
Social Economic Development
End to Poverty?
Peace on Earth?
Spacefaring civilisation?
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