Space Mission Renders
Engineering becomes image
High-resolution renders of space missions provide a visual understanding of operations, for technical purposes and public outreach, from the Archimede laser power transmission concept to renders inspired by NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (2022).
Near-Earth Asteroid Scout
A CubeSat in the manner of NEA Scout, the NASA solar sail mission led by Les Johnson, opens its solar panels, fires its thrusters on the way to an asteroid, then unfolds its sail and lets the light carry it. I animated it in 2021, the year of my thesis on the beams that hold a sail open, and it was shown at Questi ed Altri Spazi, where Les Johnson spoke about solar sails by video link.
SALVARE on Mars
For SALVARE, our base that makes rocket propellant on Mars, the renders became the video of our proposal for RASC-AL 2022: the rovers that find the ice, the plant that makes methane and oxygen from the ice and the air, the reactors that power it all.