Consumerism Promoting Modular Design for Space Mission
I’m going to take a cinematic storytelling approach in this blog post, or else it will look awkwardly whimsical.
Technical difficulties often result in spacecraft getting stranded on other planets, which looks dramatically appealing in movies but is an unfavorable situation in real life. It highlights the inefficiencies of primitive technology in space missions.
But why did I suddenly switch the conversation from Split Home Air Conditioner to Spaceships?
You will understand in a moment.
We are going to discuss advancing space and defense technologies through consumerism and consumer economy. We can improve the conditions of the consumer home appliances ecosystem by selling the dreams for advancing space technology. This will enhance our lives on Earth and in space. This isn’t a new concept though. However, this idea will highlight a few associated aspects.
There are two important things to repair a spaceship stranded on another planet with limited resources.
The first of them is the reusability of each module. This is an important aspect. For example, repair the door’s module of the spacecraft by reusing a module from the refrigerator of the spacecraft.
The second thing is that the spacecraft should have a compact and efficient workshop.
There is a race among different countries to build colonies in space.
A technology adopted by the retail consumer sector grows exponentially. This is because all kinds of people would participate in that segment of technology through the open market. The market dynamics will drive technological innovations.
We will try to realize this by aligning innovation in consumer home appliances with the idea of establishing a colony in space.
Promoting iterative modular hardware design in the consumer device segment will help us understand and evolve the system over time by engaging with various challenges in many facades of society. However, given the hazards and risks involved, rigorous quality assurance and regular user feedback collection are essential to maintain synchronization within different modules.
Encouraging iterative hardware design by implementing concepts of modular design will lead us to practice adaptive design and responsive design ideologies in the hardware segment just like adaptive design and responsive design is practiced in software design.
The definitions of hardware adaptive design and responsive design will become clear as we progress in innovation. Over time, parts of a module will become standalone sub-modules.
Modern technologies like self-healing materials and nanotechnology might need to be adopted to advance the repair mechanism of modules.
It is possible that some of these modern modules may be manufactured in big factories and some traditional modules may be manufactured in small-scale industries.
Handing over the right to repair led modular design to MSMEs while maintaining a social monitoring mechanism will bring finicality to the electronics sector. Along with improving the technology of a module, the technology of workshops in small-scale industries will also improve in parallel. The improvement in technology for small-scale industries means that the workshop’s efficiency and compactness will get better.
Along with the modules in the spacecraft, it is also important to focus on the efficiency and compactness of the workshop where the modules will be repaired.
Architecture-less designs may likely be developed in the future to get rid of architectural redundancy.
In the midst of all this, India may find an opportunity to advance its innovation of primitive microprocessor technology.
First in the series is Voltas Air Conditioner’s Deficiency in Service and Profiteering. (Link)
Previous in the series are Modular Design Advancing Customs & Excise Parts Identification Capability. (Link)
