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The SPHC project is a series of educational experiments that students will perform simultaneously with crew, demonstrating different manifestations of the laws of physics in space versus on Earth. The experiments will cover topics such as friction, surface tension, buoyancy, conservation of angular momentum, the Bernoulli effect, geometry, and how to measure mass in weightlessness. In addition to promoting space exploration and education, the project will develop recorded material for future use in Hungarian schools.
The SUMISPACE project is a public outreach campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the HUNOR program and Hungarian space activities, particularly among children and young adults. Participants can submit their names and photos online to receive a "boarding pass" for names and pictures to be launched and returned on an SD card.
Imaging of Lightning and Nighttime Electrical Phenomena from Space (ILAN-ES) seeks to collect images from space of lightning and Transient Luminous Events (TLE). These electrical phenomena above thunderstorms on Earth include blue jets, gigantic jets, Emissions of Light and Very-Low-Frequency perturbations from Electro-magnetic pulses (ELVES) and red sprites. Combining observations from the International Space Station with a global network of ground-based cameras, researchers plan to calculate the energy of observed TLE, reconstruct their 3D structures, identify parent-lightning and electrical parameters, and track lightning activity and cloud illumination patterns from different ranges and angles.
Dead reckoning, or the ability to determine current position and navigate based on previous position, may require different methods to calculate in space compared to on Earth, with the promise of greater accuracy. In this project, the accuracy and 'drift' of inbuilt sensors in a cell phone (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, proximity sensor) will be tested via motion and movement-based gestures and compared to those taken on Earth to prove that a wide range of paths can be reconstructed in weightlessness. The results from this study could help inform future spacecraft navigation systems design.
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