ENAE 484 - Space Systems Design
Past Student Design Projects

  Space Systems Laboratory - Department of Aerospace Engineering - University of Maryland

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TURTLE rover

2008 - TURTLE: Terrapin Undergraduate Rover for Terrestrial Lunar Exploration

First Place (Undergraduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
Final Report [PDF: 49.2 Mb; 440 pgs]
Final Summary Report [PDF: 8.4 Mb; 17 pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: 8.2 Mb; 55 pgs]
Critical Design Review Slide Package [ZIP file of PPT slides and movies: 40.9 Mb; 281 pgs]
Poster Presentation [PDF: 6.2 Mb; 3 pgs]

2007 - Undergraduate

Second Place (Graduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
Final Report [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]
Final Summary Report [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]

2007 - New Jamestown - Lunar Base Infrastructure

Second Place (Undergraduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
Final Summary Report [PDF: 1.3 Mb; 16 pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: 4.5 Mb; 28 pgs]

2006 - Phoenix: Low-Cost Spacecraft

First Place (Graduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
Final Report [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]
Final Summary Report [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]

space station phoenix

2006 - Space Station Phoenix: Modifying the International Space Station to Support the Vision for Space Exploration

Final Report [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]
Final Summary Report [PDF: 2.6 Mb; 19 pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: 1.6 Mb; 41 pgs]
Critical Design Review presentation (primary projector) [PDF: 5.5 Mb; 363 pgs]

2005 - SPRITE: Small Pressurized Rover for Independent Transport and Exploration

Final Summary Report [PDF: xxx Mb; 15 pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]
Preliminary Design Review [PDF: xxx Mb; xxx pgs]

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2004 - MORPHLAB: Modular Roving Planetary Habitat, Laboratory, and Base

First Place (Undergraduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
Final Summary Report [PDF: 1.2 Mb; 15 pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: 1.9 Mb; 44 pgs]
Critical Design Review presentation [PDF: 9.8 Mb; 266 pgs]
Trade Study Review [PDF: 2.2 Mb; 94 pgs]
Project Statement [PDF: 60 Kb; 2 pgs]

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2003 - SCOUT: Space Construction and Orbital Utility Transport

First Place (Undergraduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
Final Report [PDF: 19.8 Mb; 459 pgs]
Final Summary Report [PDF: 1.7 Mb; 15 pgs]
Final Summary Presentation (primary projector) [PDF: 1.6 Mb; 64 pgs]
Final Summary presentation (secondary projector) [PDF: 748 Kb; 27 pgs]
Critical Design Review presentation (primary projector) [PDF: 6.7 Mb; 346 pgs]
Critical Design Review presentation (secondary projector) [PDF: 704 Kb; 24 pgs]
Preliminary Design Review [PDF: 4.4 Mb; 236 pgs]

2001 - BURRO: A Basic Utility Rover for Research Operations

Final Summary Report [PDF: 248 Kb; 15 pgs]

2001 - Clarke Station: An Artificial Gravity Space Station at the Earth-Moon L1 Point

Second Place (Undergraduate) - NASA HEDS-UP Student Design Competition
Final Summary Report [PDF: 324 Kb; 15 pgs]
Final Summary Presentation [PDF: 2.3 Mb; 53 pgs]

2000 - Project Magellan: First Human Circumnavigation of the Moon

Second Place (Undergraduate) - NASA HEDS-UP Student Design Competition
Final Summary Report [PDF: 500 Kb; 19 pgs]

1999 - An Astronaut Assistant Rover for Martian Surface Exploration

First Place (Graduate) - NASA HEDS-UP Student Design Competition
Final Summary Report [PDF: 280 Kb; 8 pgs] (apparently incomplete)

1999 - MARV: Mars Airborne Research Vehicle

Final Summary Report [PDF: 448 Kb; 18 pgs]

1998 - MERLIN: Mars Exploratory Rover for Long-range INvestigation

Final Summary Report [PDF: 1.2 Mb; 22 pgs] (scanned)