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CODE: LCAS.001
TITLE: Comparative study of the new generation access methods to low orbit and future developments
DESCRIPTION: The work focuses on the comparison of the current systems to reach low orbit by vehicles developed by private companies.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate will assess the state of the vehicles so far developed, and comment their characteristics and potentialities, possibly comparing them with the concepts still being studied. Possible subjects for comparison may be the SpaceX Dragon, the Virgin Galactic WhiteKnight+SpaceShipTwo, the CST-100 Boing, the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser, the UK Skilon, or the ShipInSpace Ship Space44.
CODE:SDRD.002
TITLE: Comparative study on active systems of space debris deorbiting and low orbit management
DESCRIPTION: The work focuses on the study of the space debris problem, its control and its resolution.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate will evaluate the different concepts to avoid overcrowding of the used orbits and workable methods for now unused satellites decommisioning.
Possible subjects for comparison might be the start-up D-Orbit, and other European and Italian companies.
CODE:ONSC.003
TITLE: Conceptual study of a rotating big manned infrastructure, located at Lagrange Point, based on Gerard O’Neill design
DESCRIPTION: The project requirements include at least: reviewing the G. O’Neill Island 1, 2 and 3 design, the design of an infrastructure, suitable to accommodate few hundreds humans in an Earth-like environment, with one G simulated gravity, houses, industrial and civil infrastructures: current water, electricity, fresh air generation, sewage and trash recycling. Industrial process of recovered debris, zero g products production (using the zero G hub of the thorus), exo-farming and exo-agricolture might be included among activities.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The design coordinator will define the basic requirements, stake holders, identify the disciplines to be involved, define subproject (related theses works), coordinate the integrated effort, make a busgetary estimantion of the cost for the implementation, commissioning and maintenance of the infrastructure; industrial business plan.
Design inputs include the Gerard O’Neill works Island 1, 2 and 3, and some of the Krafft Ehricke papers, at least “Anthropology of Astronautics”, “The Extraterrestrial Imperative”, “Ehricke Space Garden”, “Utilization of Space Environment for Therapeutic Purposes”, “Development of Large Earth Orbital Space Station”. The “Island 0” project by the British Interplanetary Society (Jerry Stone) should be analyzed as well.
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CODE:SPTO.004
TITLE: Zero gravity sports, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: The graduation work should reply to the following basic question: which traditional and non traditional sport infrastructures could be profitably developed in zero G and/or low gravity environments? A comparative study shall be developed, including Earth orbit, Moon orbit, Lagrange points, the Moon low gravity environment. Basic elements of a business plan may be included as well.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The designer will define the basic technical aspects of the choosen case-projects, solicit partners from different disciplines to contribute to the estimation of costs and potential market.
CODE:SPTO.005
TITLE: Comparative study on Orbital hotels
DESCRIPTION: The work will develop a comparison among the different existing projects for orbital hotels in Earth orbit, Moon orbit and Moon surface, with particular attention to technical aspects and economic issues: costs and return of investment
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The designer will valuate the state of the art of the space hotels, and comment characteristics and potentialities, also taking into account possible conceptual studies.
CODE:GLSI.006
TITLE: Earth-Moon transportation systems, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: The work focuses on to be developed Earth Moon transportation systems, for civilian passengers.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The designer will valuate the historical systems (Apollo), the current miliatry projects (NASA, China, …), and assess the needed characteristics toward regular line flights from Earth to the Cislunar space and Moon surface. The needed infrastructures (ground spaceports and orbiting facilities) will be included as well.
CODE:SBES.007
TITLE: Comparative study on energy production systems in Earth orbits
DESCRIPTION: The work should make a review of the existing projects for space based power supply, mainly in the US and in Japan.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate will assess the different projects currently in progress or waiting for funding, and comment their characteristics and potentialities.
CODE:SBES.008
TITLE: Energy production systems on the Moon, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: The work should make a review of the existing projects for Moon based power supply.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate will assess the different projects currently in progress or waiting for funding, and comment their characteristics and potentialities.
TITLE: Recover and reuse of space debris, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: The work should review the existing concepts and projects for recovering and reusing the space debris. Rationale: debris and obsolete satellites materials can be used to repair operative satellites and as raw materials for building space infrastructure.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate will assess the different projects currently in progress or waiting for funding, and comment their characteristics and potentialities.
CODE:SSEO.010
TITLE: Interorbital maneuverability, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:CPST.011
TITLE: Innovative systems of re-enter in the athmosphere, for passengers safety improvement
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:CPST.012
TITLE: Civilian passengers space transport systems: paradigm shift, from military to civilian astronautics, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:CPST.013
TITLE: Asteroids mining, comparative study of the existing projects
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:CPST.014
TITLE: Moon mining, comparative study of the existing projects
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:CPST.015
TITLE: Industrial settlements on the Moon, comparative study of the existing projects
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:CPST.016
TITLE: Industrial settlements in Earth orbit, Moon orbit, Lagrange points, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:GLRR.017
TITLE: Research settlements on the Moon, comparative study of the existing projects (astronomic observatories, other cases)
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:BSED.018
TITLE: Design and develop space investment international funds, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:BSED.019
TITLE: Design government policies to help the civilian astronautics industry to grow up, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:BSED.020
TITLE: Design international cooperation policies to support a coherent expansion in space program, conceptual study
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:HLSS.021
TITLE: Comparative study on artificial gravity, to assure one G gravity in space
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:HLSS.022
TITLE: Comparative study on shielding systems, to protect human life from space hard radiations
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:HLSY.023
TITLE: Comparative study on the best vegetable cultivation for quick and abundant oxygen regeneration in space
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:HLSY.024
TITLE: Comparative study on the best cultivations for quick and abundant harvesting in space
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:HLSY.025
TITLE: Comparative study on the best species and farming techniques for farming in space
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE: CAST.026
TITLE: The civil aviation approach to space travel
DESCRIPTION: The work focuses the history of the civil aviation systems development, and identifies the possible application of that experience to civilian space travel systems
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate should abstract best concepts of technical evolution from civil aviation history, and define application to the civil astronautics transport systems development.
CODE: CAST.027
TITLE: Study of economic potential of the growth of space travel based on the analogy with air travel
DESCRIPTION: The work focuses the history of the civil aviation industry and market development, and identifies the possible application of that experience to civilian space travel
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate should abstract best practices from civil aviation evolution history, and define application to the civil astronautics development.
CODE: SPTO.028
TITLE: Market survey of how much people would pay for a sub-orbital and an orbital trip
DESCRIPTION: The scope of the work is to develop a questionnaire about the potential market of suborbital and orbital tourist services. The survey should base the questions not only on the current prices, but on the prospected lower prices, that will be available when the market will expand.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate(s), even developing a team work, should design the survey questionnaire, then choose target sample population, delivery it and collect/elaborate the data. Items for a typical business plan should be elicited, as a final product.
CODE: GLSI.029
TITLE: Moon gardening
DESCRIPTION: The scope of the work is to develop a study on the most promising vegetable species, suitable to realize gardens on the Moon, in protected and pressurized environments, Moon gravity.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE: ONSC.030
TITLE: Rotating big manned infrastructure gardening
DESCRIPTION: The scope of the work is to develop a study on the most promising vegetable species, suitable to realize gardens in a rotating big infrastructure, protected and pressurized, Earth-like gravity and zero-g gravity in the hub.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE: GLSI.031
TITLE: Moon farming
DESCRIPTION: The scope of the work is to develop a study on the most promising vegetable species, crops, suitable to realize agricolture on the Moon, in protected and pressurized environments, Moon gravity.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE: ONSC.032
TITLE: Rotating big manned infrastructure farming
DESCRIPTION: The scope of the work is to develop a study on the most promising vegetable species, crops, suitable to realize agricolture on a rotating big infrastructure, protected and pressurized, Earth-like gravity and zero-g
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:SNSY.033
TITLE: Comparison among different space attitude and navigation systems
DESCRIPTION: The work is focused on the different kind of Attitude Determination and Control System, their evolution trought the years and their future.
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate should analyze different devices and their applications in some space systems, as space stations, interplanetary probes, landers and manned spacecrafts, considering the differences, the performances and the characteristics.
CODE:GLSI.034
TITLE: Inflatable, Chemically Rigidized Space Structures: Overview of Applications & Their Technology Impact
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:SDRD.035
TITLE: Debris Removal & Protection Through the Use of Simple Expandable Structures
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:GLSI.036
TITLE: Space-Habitat Uses of Expandable Flexible Structures
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:GLSI.037
TITLE: Large Inflatable Space Workshops, Hangars, Habitats
DESCRIPTION: TBD
SCOPE OF THE WORK: TBD
CODE:CPST.038 *** NEW ***
TITLE: Advanced Airframe for very high capacity manned vehicle based on decoupling structures
DESCRIPTION: Proposed by ShipInSpace
SCOPE OF THE WORK: The candidate shall analyse the compound of a multitude of single low-sized Pods staked inside a Fairing in such a way to be structurally decoupled one another and compare it with a single big-size Module of same capacity from mass budget, FEM analysis, manufacturing, safety and cost viewpoint.
Space Renaissance International
Space Renaissance France 
Space Renaissance USA, Inc. 
Space Renaissance India
Space Renaissance Academy
Space Renaissance Initiative Group