Persuasive Paper :
Juntura Sensors
Introduction:
What if someone were to say that it was possible to locate and rectify spacecraft damage, to provide accessible 3D printing to the masses and a strong potential of saving lives by helping the global medical industry better surgery success rates; all at a very low cost and with the same technology? Most people might feel that these actions are quite unconnected and there was probably no way of doing either of these tasks at a low cost. But, when one takes into account the Juntura position sensor project at NASA, all of these possibilities seem to make complete sense together and also seem to have a very good chance of turning into reality. The Juntura Position Sensor Project aims to develop …show more content…
When spacecrafts travel in the low-Earth orbit, they tend to collide with micrometeoroids or naturally-occurring space debris, that travel at extremely high velocities. In a paper written by Bernhard, Christiansen, Hyde and Crews (1995), abrasion to the external shell surface of a spacecraft is detrimental to the thermal properties of the spacecraft and hence requires repair after the spacecraft’s return to the Earth. The basic issue that concerned the scientists, who were tasked with repairing the impact craters on the surface of the spacecraft, was that due to the large size of the spacecraft, it was an extremely tedious and challenging task to locate every single crater on the surface. On the other hand, though the task was laborious, it was a most necessary and a very required one since a spacecraft with unrepaired impact craters on its surface, would go through a lot of wear and tear in the outer space and could possibly end up in an unfortunate space-incident. Hence, the Juntura Position Sensor was created so as to have an efficient yet small and low-cost sensor that locates impact craters and other damaged areas on the surface of a …show more content…
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Porcheron, T. (2000). Monitoring behavior in home using a smart fall
sensor and position sensors. In Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, 1st Annual International, Conference On. 2000 (pp. 607-610). IEEE.
2.Oed, A. (1988). Position-sensitive detector with microstrip anode for electron
multiplication with gases. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics
Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and
Associated Equipment, 263(2), 351-359.
3.Montgomery, J. R., Figueroa, J. A., & White, G. (1989). U.S. Patent No.
4,797,544. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
4.Ferre, M. R., Jakab, P. D., & Tieman, J. S. (1997). U.S. Patent No. 5,676,673.
Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
5.Murphy, S. V., & Atala, A. (2014). 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs. Nature
biotechnology, 32(8), 773-785.
6.Juntura's Story. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.junturagroup.com/?a=about
7.Low-Cost Sensors Deliver Nanometer-Accurate Measurements. (n.d.).
Retrieved from
Juntura Sensors
Introduction:
What if someone were to say that it was possible to locate and rectify spacecraft damage, to provide accessible 3D printing to the masses and a strong potential of saving lives by helping the global medical industry better surgery success rates; all at a very low cost and with the same technology? Most people might feel that these actions are quite unconnected and there was probably no way of doing either of these tasks at a low cost. But, when one takes into account the Juntura position sensor project at NASA, all of these possibilities seem to make complete sense together and also seem to have a very good chance of turning into reality. The Juntura Position Sensor Project aims to develop …show more content…
When spacecrafts travel in the low-Earth orbit, they tend to collide with micrometeoroids or naturally-occurring space debris, that travel at extremely high velocities. In a paper written by Bernhard, Christiansen, Hyde and Crews (1995), abrasion to the external shell surface of a spacecraft is detrimental to the thermal properties of the spacecraft and hence requires repair after the spacecraft’s return to the Earth. The basic issue that concerned the scientists, who were tasked with repairing the impact craters on the surface of the spacecraft, was that due to the large size of the spacecraft, it was an extremely tedious and challenging task to locate every single crater on the surface. On the other hand, though the task was laborious, it was a most necessary and a very required one since a spacecraft with unrepaired impact craters on its surface, would go through a lot of wear and tear in the outer space and could possibly end up in an unfortunate space-incident. Hence, the Juntura Position Sensor was created so as to have an efficient yet small and low-cost sensor that locates impact craters and other damaged areas on the surface of a …show more content…
&
Porcheron, T. (2000). Monitoring behavior in home using a smart fall
sensor and position sensors. In Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, 1st Annual International, Conference On. 2000 (pp. 607-610). IEEE.
2.Oed, A. (1988). Position-sensitive detector with microstrip anode for electron
multiplication with gases. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics
Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and
Associated Equipment, 263(2), 351-359.
3.Montgomery, J. R., Figueroa, J. A., & White, G. (1989). U.S. Patent No.
4,797,544. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
4.Ferre, M. R., Jakab, P. D., & Tieman, J. S. (1997). U.S. Patent No. 5,676,673.
Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
5.Murphy, S. V., & Atala, A. (2014). 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs. Nature
biotechnology, 32(8), 773-785.
6.Juntura's Story. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.junturagroup.com/?a=about
7.Low-Cost Sensors Deliver Nanometer-Accurate Measurements. (n.d.).
Retrieved from