19459001 Joe AtkinsonLangley Research Center 19659001 Apr 05, 2024 19659002 Fourteen undergraduate and graduate groups from throughout the nation were picked as finalists to complete in among NASA’s longest running trainee obstacles– the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts– Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competitors. The competitors fuels development and difficulties undergraduate and graduate groups to establish brand-new ideas to enhance our capability to run on the Moon, Mars and beyond. Finalists will take a trip to Cocoa Beach, Florida next June to provide their proposed ideas to a panel of NASA and aerospace market leaders. The 2024 finalist groups are: AI-Powered Self-Replicating Probe Theme: Clarkson University with Khalifa University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) AUTONOMY: Augmented Unmanned Technology Operating in Navigating Objects of Mining Yield Advisors: Dr. Michael Bazzocchi (Clarkson), Dr. Roberto Sabatini (Khalifa), Dr. Alessandro Gardi (Khalifa), Dr. Anna Bourmistrova (RMIT) 19659008 Stanford University with the University of Waterloo 19659009 Modular Self-Assembling Robotic Architecture (MARA) Advisors: Prof. Anton Ermakov (Stanford), Prof. William Melek (Waterloo) 19659011 University of Texas, Austin AETHER: Autonomous Exploration Through Extraterrestrial Regions 19659013 Consultant: Prof. Adam Nokes Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 19659015 Job Draupnir Consultant: Dr. Kevin Shinpaugh 19659017 Massive Lunar Crater Prospector Theme: Iowa State University 19659019 Sub-Surface Condensation Analysis Rover for Crater Exploration (SCARCE) Consultant: Dr. Matthew Nelson South Dakota State University 19659022 POSEID-N: Prospecting Observation System for Exploration, Investigation, Discovery, and Navigation 19459006 Consultant: Dr. Todd Letcher Tulane University S.P.I.D.E.R: South Pole Ice Drilling and Exploration Rover 19659026 Advisors: Dr. Matt Barrios 19659027 University of Maryland 19659028 SITIS: Subsurface Ice and Terrain In-situ Surveyor 19459006 19659029 Consultant: Dr. David Akin University of Texas, Austin 19659031 VENOM: Volatile Examining luNar prOspectors and Mothership 19659032 Consultant: Prof. Adam Nokes Long-Duration Mars Simulation at the Moon Theme: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology– Lausanne (ISAE) and National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space (EPFL) 19659035 MARTEMIS: Mars Architecture Research utilizing Taguchi Experiments on the Moon with International Solidarity 19659036 Advisors: Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman (MIT), Madelyn Hoying (MIT), Dr. George Lordos (MIT), Dr. Olivier de Weck (MIT), Dr. Alexandros Lordos (University of Cyprus), Vsevolo Peysakhovich (ISAE), Dr. Andreas Osterwalder (EPFL), Dr. Martin Heyne (Intuitive Machines), Dr. Alexander Miller (Blue Origin) University of Maryland ยป … 19659039 Learn more