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Ionic DiVanadium Sulfide
We train the next generation of Vanadium-mining spaceship pilots
Our Story
When Elon Musk planned the 2034 mission to Mars, he had not thought of how to sustain life there. Of particular concern was how to provide electricity to the new Martian population. For this reason, a team of engineers was summoned to figure out how to power civilization in Mars, and they came up with a brilliant solution: use solar panels to charge batteries, such that any type of electricity demand can be met. However, batteries are heavy, so why bring them from Earth when you can mine the active material near Mars? It turns out Vanadium is a common material on asteroids around Mars, and is also a great candidate for flow batteries. This is the solution to the Mars electrification problem: solar panels and vanadium flow batteries.
But bringing many state-of-the-art asteroid-mining spaceships from Earth can also be difficult, so these vanadium miners have to be very simple: single-axis thrust vectoring, a simple navigation interface constituting of two needles, and adjustable heading control system that requires calibration by the pilot to best suit current flight conditions. It goes without saying that maneuvering these spaceships can be very challenging, so pilots have to be trained! This is how A.S.T.E.R.O.I.D.S. came to be, an initiative to train TATERs (Terrans Aboard The Enormous Rocket) to be asteroid-mining pilots, and thus help support life in Mars by providing a dependable, around-the-clock electricity supply.
Our training product is the ASTEROID MINER, a Portable Offworld Training And enTertainment Object (POTATO) that requires the pilot-in-training to steer towards a specified heading, while having to adjust the dynamics of the heading control system. The pilot also has to activate the spacecraft's mining mechanism via a lever on the right side of the control panel, when prompted.
IMPORTANT NOTE: None of this is actually true, except for the fact that Vanadium flow batteries actually exist!
But bringing many state-of-the-art asteroid-mining spaceships from Earth can also be difficult, so these vanadium miners have to be very simple: single-axis thrust vectoring, a simple navigation interface constituting of two needles, and adjustable heading control system that requires calibration by the pilot to best suit current flight conditions. It goes without saying that maneuvering these spaceships can be very challenging, so pilots have to be trained! This is how A.S.T.E.R.O.I.D.S. came to be, an initiative to train TATERs (Terrans Aboard The Enormous Rocket) to be asteroid-mining pilots, and thus help support life in Mars by providing a dependable, around-the-clock electricity supply.
Our training product is the ASTEROID MINER, a Portable Offworld Training And enTertainment Object (POTATO) that requires the pilot-in-training to steer towards a specified heading, while having to adjust the dynamics of the heading control system. The pilot also has to activate the spacecraft's mining mechanism via a lever on the right side of the control panel, when prompted.
IMPORTANT NOTE: None of this is actually true, except for the fact that Vanadium flow batteries actually exist!
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THE TEAM
Daniel "The Bug Exterminator" Chan |
Natalie "I brought candy" Ferrante |
Elizabeth "Sass master" Vasquez |
Mauricio "3am PRL run" Sanchez |