The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Students create space city `Astoria'

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Andhra Pradesh

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Students create space city `Astoria'

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City school qualifies for Asian space settlement design competition semifinals

AIMING HIGH: A group of students from Little Flower High School, Abids, discussing project `Astoria' with Principal Br. Jaico Gervasis in the city on Tuesday. — Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

HYDERABAD: A space city located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter replete with support structures needed for 10,000 people to work and live, conceptualised by students of Little Flower High School, Abids, has qualified for semi finals of the annual Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition.

The space city named `Astoria' will have space settlements developed by 55 teams drawn from various schools of South-East Asian countries in the design competition to be held in Gurgaon from January 25 to 28.

The team of 12 students from the school consists of Akhil M. Singh, Amogh Deshmukh, Anurag Prasad, P. Aravind, E. Dheeraj Reddy, Manasvi Kumar, Mustafa Hashmi, K. Rohit Reddy, Sai Satyajit, Sri Anish, Udbhav Anand and Navya Raghava.

The group of students who interacted with media persons here on Tuesday said that they had developed the concept of `Astoria' keeping in view all the necessary facilities like power supply, fuel generation, electricity supply and basic needs for residential dwellings.

"In the semi-finals we will be given a new assignment that will be judged by a group of engineers and scientists. The winners of this level will participate in an international-level competition at NASA, Houston, Texas," said Mustafa Hashmi, team leader of the group. The group of students whose space city is based on authentic scientific principals have estimated that their space city will take five years for construction.

"Solar panels to generate power, using asteroid ice for water, 14 hours of day time and 10 hours of night time are some of the features of our space city. We got inspired by our senior students Rithvik and Abhinav who had made it to Houston last year in the same competition," the students said.

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