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The International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) utilises the inspiration of space exploration to instill the NASA ‘you can do it’ spirit in students with the intent of enabling these young minds to believe that with hard work and determination, they can fulfil their dreams and ambitions.
During my time working with ISSET, I have helped by mentoring student teams at their Mission Discovery events. Mission Discovery is an amazing event at which the students build teamworking and presenting skills whilst simultaneously formulating a proposal and design for an experiment to be sent to the Interational Space Station (ISS). Throughout the week, the students get to learn from scientists, NASA personnel and a NASA astronaut. At the end of the 5 day event, one experiment is chosen by the judging panel to be developed and sent to the ISS.
Once a winning experiment is chosen, the ISSET team begin to design it. On the left you will see a 3D rendering of an experiment which was proposed to test the effects of microgravity on the dynamics of a ferrofluid. The ferrofluid was placed in an acrylic tube and was manipulated by two electromagnetic coils at either end. Wrapped around the centre of the acrylic tube was a sensing coil which picked up the induced voltage as a result of the moving ferrofluid. This experiment was sent to the ISS onboard Cygnus NG-18. The voltage values were measured on an Arduino Nano and written to an SD card which was sent back to Earth for the students to analyse.
ferrofluid operations.MOVIf you are interested in learning more about Mission Discovery or my other work with ISSET please contact me at jdenrightphysics@gmail.com.
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