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Introduction to the Mission Idea Contest

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The Mission Idea Contest (MIC) was established in 2010 to provide aerospace engineers, college students, consultants, and anybody interested in space with opportunities to present their creative ideas and gain attention internationally. The primary goal of MICs is to open a door to a new facet of space exploration and exploitation.

Development of micro/nano-satellites started as an educational and research program primarily at university laboratories. As the micro/nano-satellite technology matures, it has spread rapidly across the academics and industry for practical application.

Category A: ICECubes

1st Place: MUSA: An ISS Experiment for research of a dual culture for Panama Disease, Costa Rica Institute of Technology(TEC)

Student Prize: MARGE Melanoma Apoptosis Reduced Gravity Experiment, Sapienza University of Rome

Category B: iSEEP

1st Place: Spectrum Monitoring from Space with i-SEEP (SMoSiS), University of the Philippines Diliman

Student Prize: Mountain VIEWS (Mountain Volcanoes Identification and Early Warning System, Telkom University

IAA Award: MUSA: An ISS Experiment for research of a dual culture for Panama Disease, Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Finalist

	Title	category	Name	Affiliation	Country
Finalist	Quantification of Metal Extraction from a Substrate by Biomining Presentation (1.97 MB)	A) ICE Cubes	Lopez Campos Graciela	Universidad de Costa Rica	Costa Rica
Finalist	In-Orbit Total Ionizing Doze Testing of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) parts for Small Satellites Presentation (2.28 MB)	B) iSEEP	Senior Shimhanda	Kyushu Institute of Technology	Japan
Finalist	MUSA: An ISS Experiment for research of a dual culture for Panama Disease Presentation (3.21 MB)	A) ICE Cubes	Jose Ricardo Campos Mora	Costs Rica Institute of Technology (TEC)	Costa Rica
Finalist	MARGE Melanoma Apoptosis Reduced Gravity Experiment Presentation (2.08 MB)	A) ICE Cubes	Gianluca Cocirla	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
Finalist	gamma ray astronomy by cubesat swarms Presentation (2.70 MB)	B) iSEEP	Plamen Dankov	Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski""	Bulgaria
Finalist	Spectrum Monitoring from Space with i-SEEP (SMoSiS) Presentation (2.76 MB)	B) iSEEP	Joel Joseph S. Marciano, Jr	DOST-ASTI and University of the Philippines Diliman	The Philippines
Finalist	Mountain VIEWS (Mountain Volcanoes Identification and Early Warning System) Presentation (2.37 MB)	B) iSEEP	Muhammad Manggala	Telcom University	Indonesia
Semi-finalist	HVBM: Heart Valve prosthesis Behavior in Microgravity environment Presentation (3.37 MB)	A) ICE Cubes	Anisia Lauditi	Politecnico di Milano	Italy
Semi-finalist	Bacterilogical Mutation by Cosmic Radiation Presentation (1.52 MB)	A) ICE Cubes	Santos Gustavo Javier	UTN-FRC	Argentina
Semi-finalist	Technology Demonstrate of Bone-Loss-Reducing Bacteria Culture for Deep Space Presentation (5.40 MB)	A) ICE Cubes	Saran Seehanam	Space Youth Association of Thailand (SYAT) and FREAK laboratory	Thailand

Scope

The MIC6 offers aerospace engineers, scientists, college students, consultants, and anybody interested in space with opportunities to present their creative ideas on payload for ISS platform and gain attention internationally. The primary goal of MIC is to open a door to a new facet of space exploration and research & technologies.

Recently opportunities opened up to all to regularly and rapidly fly payloads (from 1U upwards) to the International Space Station (ISS), the permanently inhabited location other than Earth and our stepping stone to exploration of the moon, Mars and beyond. This way access for the performance of research, the development and test of technology and the manufacturing of innovative products in low Earth orbit is becoming a reality.

On-board of the International Space Station, research can be done, and technologies can be testing making use of the unique features of microgravity and radiation. Applied research making use of the microgravity value features allows for significant relevance for terrestrial benefits and allows the research to also contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

MIC6 is organized in cooperation with ICE Cubes and Space BD to utilize the ISS experiment modules, Columbus of ESA and Kibo of JAXA.

Requirements

Please propose an innovative experiment idea which:

• either contributes to earth benefits or contributes to human space exploration
• contributes to any of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Other requirements:

• Research or technology idea for the pressurized internal of the international space station for which microgravity or radiation aspects of this space environment are mandatorily required.
• The experiment can be performed
  A) inside of ISS - ICE Cubes facility on ESA Columbus module or
  B) outside of ISS - iSEEP facility on JAXA Kibo module
  
  See below for more details.
  
  A) in the ICE Cubes facility installed in ESA’s Columbus module: www.icecubesservice.com Payload of dimension of between 1U (10*10*10cm) and 3U*4U (30*40*10cm). More information
  
  B) in the iSEEP facility in JAXA’s Kibo module: http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/ef/i-seep/ Payload of dimension of between 1U (10*10*10cm) and 3U (30*30*10cm). More information, Specification

Schedule

• Call for paper: February 8, 2019
• Abstract submission due: August 8, 2019
• Notification: September 9, 2019
• Full Paper submission due: October 10, 2019
• Final presentation: during 7th UNISEC-Global Meeting
  Venue: The Koshiba Hall, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  Dates: Dec 2, 2019

Evaluation Criteria

• Originality (50 points)
  • Novel concept not yet realized or proposed, or a new implementation of an existing capability or service (25)
  • Impact on society / Sustainable Development Goals / human spaceflight exploration (25)
• Feasibility (50 points)
  • Technical (20)
  • Programmatic (cost estimate, development schedule, infrastructure requirements) (15)
  • Operational (protocol, communication and interaction during experiment) (15)

Reasons for participation

• Finalists will be given an opportunity to make a final presentation in front of international reviewers during 7th UNISEC-Global Meeting in Tokyo in November 30 - December 3, 2019.
• Awards:
  • 1st place:
    • Certificate
    • (A) ICE Cubes:
      • 25% discount on a 1U cube of 1 kg for 4 months operations for a launch within 2 years from award and
      • A visit to the ICE Cubes control centre / clean room and the European Astronaut Centre or Monetary award (500 Euro)
    • (B) iSEEP: 25% discount on a 1U-3U size payload for 6 months operations for a launch within 2 years from the award and Monetary award (50,000 Japanese yen)
  • 2nd place:
    • Certificate
    • (A)ICE Cubes:
      • 15% discount on a 1U cube of 1 kg for 4 months operations for a launch within 2 years from award and
      • A visit to the ICE Cubes control centre / clean room and the European Astronaut Centre or Monetary Award (300 Euro)
    • (B) iSEEP: 15% discount on a 1U-3U size payload for 6 months operations for a launch within 2 years from the award and Monetary award (30,000 Japanese yen)
  • Student Prize:
    • Certificate
    • (A) ICE Cubes:
      • 10% discount on a 1U cube of 1 kg for 4 months operations for a launch within 2 years from award and
      • Monetary Award (250 Euro)
    • (B) iSEEP: 10% discount on a 1U-3U size payload for 6 months operations for a launch within 2 years from the award and Monetary award (25,000 Japanese yen)
  • IAA award
• Selected papers will be published
• High visibility for your ideas and the potential for future collaboration and support

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