Satellite Architect - Save the day with space tech!

卫星建筑师 - 用太空技术拯救世界！

• 批准号: ST/W005387/1
• 负责人: Eddie Ross
• 金额: $ 1.83万
• 依托单位: Satellite Applications Catapult (United Kingdom)
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FW005387%2F1
• 关键词: Satellite; Architect; Save; day; space

To exemplify how data from satellites can provide valuable insight into challenges here on Earth, increasing the scientific awareness of key stage three students, teachers, and their families. Through providing an opportunity to find creative and innovative solutions to real life problems, this project will give examples of how science and business, industry and academia can work together to innovate for a better world, powered by satellites. The Spark Award will provide the funding to develop a standalone game which allows participants to experience the role of a satellite architect, in a reusable and entertaining manner, to directly engage students into undertaking STEM careers, in an inclusive manner. We also intend to release the game as a PDF 'print and play' version, to ensure it is accessible to audiences in digital poverty and promoting group usage and team working.The Space Skills Alliance Census schooling figures show that people from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds appear to be under-represented in the space sector and this under-representation is regionally invariant. These data suggest that people who attended state non-selective schools are under-represented by nearly 25% compared to the general UK population. According to the 2019 Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), 10 of Oxford's 83 super output areas (SOAs) are among the 20% most deprived areas in England. These areas, which are in the Leys, Rose Hill, Littlemore, Barton and areas of the city, experience multiple levels of deprivation - low skills, low incomes, and relatively high levels of crime. As Satellite Applications Catapult is in Oxfordshire, we aim to target key stage three (KS3) school students, their teachers, and their families in these locations to support their STEM development and help overcome their under-representation in the space sector. As the resource will be digital or printable and openly accessible, we aim to encourage science discussions within the families, advancing the science capital of family members who might not otherwise have chosen to engage with STEM subjects. In addition, using our network, we aim to increase the reach of the resource beyond the local Oxfordshire region, through to other areas of the UK with high IMDs such as: the West Midlands, North East England, North West England, and Yorkshire.We aim to increase awareness of the space industry's ability and application to solve pressing global issues. In particular, we aim to improve understanding around climate challenges and ways they can be tackled using satellite data, which is closely related to the Satellite Applications Catapult's net zero and COP 26 initiatives. In addition, because of the Catapult's unique position in empowering the commercialisation of space innovation, the resource is also uniquely positioned to demonstrate how STEM and business can be combined.After playing the game, the audience should come away with: - An understanding of 3 major types of satellites and their real-world applications.- An understanding of which subjects and skills are relevant to space careers- A feeling of value and accomplishment for solving a relevant environmental crisis.- A feeling of inspiration and aspiration to pursue a STEM and/or space sector career.- An ability to effectively work as part of a team (where the pupils play as part of a team; they can also play solo).These outcomes will be achievable regardless of whether the resource is used in-person or online. In addition, the game will build on applicable KS3 topics: - Introduction to space science and satellite applications. - Principles of gravity/orbital physics that dictate satellite coverage and revisit rate. - Principles of light wave physics that enables imaging in the visible light spectrum and beyond. - An understanding of radio wave communication through ground segment capabilities (this also highlights STFC's ground segment capabilities).

为了举例说明来自卫星的数据如何为地球上的挑战提供宝贵的洞察，提高关键阶段三的学生、教师和他们的家人的科学意识。通过提供一个为现实生活问题找到创造性和创新性解决方案的机会，该项目将提供例子，说明科学和商业、工业和学术界如何共同努力，为一个由卫星提供动力的更美好的世界而创新。星火奖将提供资金开发一个独立的游戏，允许参与者以可重复使用和有趣的方式体验卫星架构师的角色，以包容的方式直接吸引学生从事STEM职业生涯。我们还打算将这款游戏发布为PDF“打印即玩”版本，以确保数字贫困的观众可以接触到它，并促进群体使用和团队合作。太空技能联盟人口普查的就学数据显示，来自不太有利的社会经济背景的人在太空部门的代表性似乎不足，而且这种代表性不足的情况在地区是不变的。这些数据表明，与英国总体人口相比，就读于公立非选择性学校的人比例偏低近25%。根据2019年多重剥夺指数(IMD)，牛津83个超级产出区(SOA)中有10个在英格兰20%最贫困的地区之列。这些地区位于莱斯、罗斯山、利特尔莫尔、巴顿和该市的一些地区，经历了多种程度的贫困--低技能、低收入和相对较高的犯罪率。由于卫星应用弹射器位于牛津郡，我们的目标是以这些地区的关键阶段三(KS3)学校的学生、他们的教师和他们的家庭为目标，以支持他们的STEM发展，并帮助他们克服在空间部门代表性不足的问题。由于资源将是数字的或可打印的，并可公开获取，我们的目标是鼓励家庭内的科学讨论，促进家庭成员的科学资本，否则他们可能不会选择参与STEM主题。此外，通过我们的网络，我们的目标是将资源的覆盖范围扩大到当地牛津郡以外的地区，通过IMD高的英国其他地区，如西米德兰兹郡、英格兰东北部、英格兰西北部和约克郡。我们的目标是提高人们对航天工业解决紧迫全球问题的能力和应用的认识。特别是，我们的目标是增进对气候挑战以及如何利用卫星数据应对这些挑战的了解，这与卫星应用弹射器的净零和COP 26倡议密切相关。此外，由于弹射器在推动空间创新商业化方面的独特地位，该资源在展示STEM和商业如何结合方面也具有独特的地位。在玩完游戏后，观众应该：-了解三种主要类型的卫星及其在现实世界中的应用。-了解哪些学科和技能与太空事业相关-解决相关环境危机的价值感和成就感。-一种灵感和追求STEM和/或太空部门职业的渴望。-有效地作为团队的一部分工作的能力(学生们作为团队的一部分进行游戏；他们也可以单独使用)。无论资源是面对面使用还是在线使用，这些结果都是可以实现的。此外，这款游戏将基于适用的KS3主题：-空间科学和卫星应用入门。-决定卫星复盖率和重访率的重力/轨道物理学原理。-光波物理原理，能够在可见光光谱和更远的地方成像。-通过地面段能力了解无线电波通信(这也突出了STFC的地面段能力)。