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Destiny Lab Power Failure Challenge

MISSION

Welcome, NASA Engineer!

By now you should be comfortable applying formulas for calculating electricity and power usage. It is now your job to reschedule the power use of the Destiny Lab to respond to a power failure scenario. You have to deal with keeping all of the life support and lab experiments running while the lab is reduced to half power. That means you can never schedule more than 3,000 watts of power usage in any one hour out of a 24-hour schedule.

First, review the International Space Station (ISS) power background below to familiarize yourself with this unique power system.

Then, enter the Destiny Lab to complete your Part I of the challenge. The Destiny Lab computer software has been set up to assist you.

 

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