In an article posted by Space.com a project by a aerospace company, NovaWorks who are using a unique strategy to build satellites. The usually process includes shrinking technology down as much as possible and getting all of the equipment to fit in the body of a satellite. For a small company like tis with less funding to get smaller technology they came up with a new plan. They decided to start engineering the body of the satellite around their equipment. This type of thinking is exactly what is taught to engineering students. In my classes I see this where the teachers assign us with problems and we need to find a unique way to solve it. The key to engineering is problem solving.
What I took from this article is that there is always another way to do a task. There is never only one way to engineering something and this is also connecting back to my classes. In my engineering class a task was assigned to build a robot with a claw that could pick up a ball, and no two robots were the same, even similar. This small company came up with a great idea, that will save money, and has never been done before. Their satellites have been taking trips to space already, one going to the international space station and another planning on taking a trip with a SpaceX rocket. Their design ideas will most likely be seen implemented in other projects. Engineering is about thinking outside the box and completing task in the most efficient way possible and that is what NovaWorks accomplished. Ill be sure to use this type of thinking when handling my own projects.
Source: http://www.space.com/35885-novawurks-building-satellites-around-instruments.html
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