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We are grateful for our very first participation as a “Challenge Owner” at the SUN Hackathon. It was a new experience for us which brought us both fulfilment and the occasion to interact and collaborate with other dedicated people within the space sector.

Congratulations to the winners of both challenges
Challenge #1: Future space debris minimization alternatives: new design for orbital technologies
🥇 SpaceTug : Hari Shankar R.L.
🥈 : Antonie David, Andrei Bunea, Stathis Athanasopoulos, Anil Celik, Tarun.

Challenge #2: Identification of agricultural over-fertilization using satellite data
🥇 : Adam Kňaze
🥈Cropinno.co: Zahra Torkaman, Siamak Salman, Sara Mirshekari, Hamed Hamedian, Mohsen Hoseini

We offer our appreciation to Space Hubs Network , Startup Division and CIVITTA for organising the event and for inviting us to be a part of it.

Together we’re expanding possibilities

🚀Join us at SUN Hackathon from 6 to 8th April! You can register here (ddl. 5th April):
👉https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-hackathon-tickets-292253346627

📌Our challenge: Future space debris minimization alternatives: new design for orbital technologies

📌The scope of the challenge : The development of new alternatives for space debris mitigation

📌Background information:
Space debris represents all the dead artificial objects present in space. Throughout this case study, we will mainly target the debris found within the Earth orbits, given the fact that it has the greatest potential to cause damage to humanity.

Current status indicated by data:
21,901 artificial objects in various Earth orbits, out of which 4,450 were satellites (that can be surely seen?.
An estimate of 128 million debris smaller than 1 cm, approximately 900,000 debris between 1-10 cm and just over 34,000 debris larger than 10 cm.

📌Official requirement:
The task of the teams is to develop and present a possible method of already existing space debris mitigation and/or an alternative to reducing the rate of their generation.

The solution presented can contain either a direct method (e.g. special satellites that have the role of cleaning the orbit, various deorbiting systems of current waste a.s.o.) or indirect alternatives (reducing the amount of waste generated by future space missions, new methods of the stages separation, upper stages with automatic deorbiting system, reusable upper stages etc.). The teams will have to present their proposal through a 3 minutes pitch.