Introduction

1.1 Design Background Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle, or machine designed to fly in outer space. Spacecraft

are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation,

meteorology, navigation, space colonization, planetary exploration, and transportation

of humans and cargo.

On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters space and then returns to the

surface, without having gone into an orbit. For orbital spaceflights, spacecraft enter

closed orbits around the Earth or around other celestial bodies. Spacecraft used for

human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers from start or on orbit

(space stations) only, while those used for robotic space missions operate either

autonomously or tele robotically. Robotic spacecraft used to support scientific

research are space probes. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around a planetary

body are artificial satellites. Only a handful of interstellar probes, such as Pioneer 10

and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons, are currently on trajectories that leave

our Solar System.

Orbital spacecraft may be recoverable or not. By method of reentry to Earth

they may be divided in non-winged space capsules and winged spaceplanes.

Currently, humanity has achieved space flight but only twenty-four nations

actually have spacefaring technology: Russia (Roscosmos, the Russian Space Forces),

the United States (NASA, the US Air Force, and several commercial aerospace

companies), the member states of the European Space Agency, the People's Republic

of China (China National Space Administration), japan (Japan Aerospace Exploration

Agency), and India (Indian Space Research Organization).

Ideation

2.1 Idea Generation

There are many type or design of spacecraft that we can find in the world

which produce by the well-known designer or by the amateur designer. Some of them

are nice and can be commercialize to the public and some of them need to have

further research and development.

The idea generation is from the spaceship concept (picture below), but with

slightly changes on the design.

List of Material

3.1 Material and Tools

Type of Material Picture

Flower Foam

Hard Putty (Duko)

Sand Paper

Primer spray and color

Dunlop Glue

Wall Filler

UHU Glue

Poly Putty

Modeling Board

Type of Tool Picture

Knife and scissor

Ruler and Pencil

Foam cutter

Model Making Process

4.1 Procedure Development

No Process Description

1. Take 2 flower foam and glue it

together.

2. Cut the flower foam according to

the design of the spacecraft.

3. Sand the flower foam until it you

can see the spacecraft shape.

4. After that, use poly patty and

covered all the flower foam that

have been shape with it.

5. After that, use sand paper and sand

the flower foam that have covered

with poly patty until the surface is

smooth.

Use wall filler if theres some hole.

6. Cut the modeling board according

design to make the spacecraft

wings.

7. Glue the modeling board with

flower foam as you can see in the

picture.

8. After that, take the hard patty and

spray it on the spacecraft that have

been attached with the wing.

Spray whole body of spacecraft

including the wings with the hard

patty.

9. After the spacecraft dry, sand it

until the surface is smooth. Use

sand paper that 1000cc and above

so that the surface is smooth.

10. After the surface of spacecraft is

smooth, spray it back with white

colour. Spray it for the whole

body.

11. After that, let it dry.

Then, proceed to coloring the

spacecraft according to desirer

choice of colour.

Conclusion

My conclusion is, making a model using flower foam is to see the finishing of product so that

it can be improve on the design. Model making is a logical next step in the thinking process

for many ideas and requires a unique combination of conceptual, technical and creative

competencies. For this third assignment I was given a task to build a model of spacecraft by

using Flower Foam and the result I had success do it by using flower foam.