What is the SpaceSet thing??

Many people have been asking that WTF is Space Set. It happens to be a competition, also known as the Asian Region Space Settlement Design Competition. It is, as you have read, on the Asian level, excluding Russia and China.

The registered schools are assigned a company Northdonning Heedwell who are given a Request for Proposal to build a space settlement/colony for Earthlings in space. Now, the settlement to be designed at the initial levels is always in orbit, only the langaragian points (L1-L5) vary. The proposal consists of all the minimum requirements to be met by all departments like the Operations, Human Factors, Automation, Structure Design etc. A 40 page proposal is them submitted complete with robots, charts, tables etc.

To design the structure, one basically uses a torus in most cases since it offers equal gravity at all points. Like this ,one ends up designing the settlement keeping in mind what the Foundation Society, or the contractor demands. So while designing, one needs a lot of math, science and knowledge about the things around you. While designing the robots, I intend on using 3d models – they offer a better perspective of what one would like to show.

4 Indian semi-finalists and 4 Non-indian semifinalists along with 4 invited teams are invited for the Asian finals. One from each group are paired together and divided into companies. We are then supposed to attend a series of workshops and finally are given a proposal which has to be prepared under a day and presented.

So, that’s what Space Set is all about. The top 12 teams every year go to the Asian finals where the Indian and the Non-indian winners get to go to NASA while the invited team gets another chance to submit the proposal once again. I am part of an invited team and hope to win it here in the Finals so that we can send our proposal again.

So long!