ENAE 484 - Space Systems Design
Past Student Design Projects

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

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 2023 - SHELL: Lunar Logistics System


 2023 - MUSCL-1: Earth-Moon L1 Station


 2023 - Project Hestia: Lunar North Pole Tourism


 2023 - Goddard Collaborative Robotics


 2023 - HOME: Mars Settlement


 2022 - Power Utility Package

 2022 - Suitport Logistics Carrier

 2022 - Space Settlement

 2021 - Venus Flyby

 2021 - Human Mission to Ceres

 2021 - MALLARD: Mars Ascent Vehicle

 2021 - Lunar

 2020 - EXPLORER

 2020 - KATABASIS

 2020 - Minimum Habitat

 2020 - Terradigm

 2019 - Lunar Rover

 2019 - Lunar Habitat

 2019 - Lunar Lander

 2019 - Inflatable Airlock

 2018 - TERPS: Trans-Mars Exploration Reusable Propulsion Stage

 Second Place (Overall) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
 Final Report [PDF: X pgs., X Mb]
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2018 - MARSH: Multi-Missin Artificial-gravity Reusable Space Habitat

 Final Report [PDF: X pgs., X Mb]
 AIAA Space 2018 paper (Best Space Architecture Student Paper of 2018 – AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee)
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2017 - Ultima Thule: Developing a Permanent Earth-Independent Settlement on Mars

 Second Place (Overall) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
 Final Report [PDF: X pgs., X Mb]
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2016 - Vanguard: Developing a Permanent Earth-Independent Settlement on Mars

 First Place (Theme) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
 Final Report [PDF: 474 pgs., 53.5 Mb]
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2016 - Romulus Program: Long-Term Mars Lunar Habitation

 Final Report [PDF: pgs., Mb]
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2015 - Asimov City: Developing a Permanent Earth-Independent Settlement on Mars

 First Place (Overall) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
 Final Report [PDF: 474 pgs., 53.5 Mb]
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2014 - POLUS: A Variable Gravity Cislunar Space Station

 Second Place (Overall) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
 Final Report [PDF: 120 Mb, 494 pgs.]
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package [PDF: 40.5 Mb, 351 pgs.]
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package [PDF: 77.2 Mb, 264 pgs.]
 Poster Presentation

 2013 - FLEETS: Flexible Lunar/Extraterrestrial Exploration Transportation System

 Second Place (Overall) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
 Final Report [PDF: 83.9 Mb, 422 pgs.]
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
  Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2013 - RAVEN II (Graduate)

 Final Report
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2012 - GESSO

 Final Report
 RASC-AL Summary Report
 RASC-AL Summary Presentation
 Critical Design Review Slide Package
 Preliminary Design Review Slide Package
 Poster Presentation

 2012 - Exo-SPHERES

 2011 - MAVERIC

 2010 - RAVEN

First Place (Undergraduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
First Place - NASA ESMD Moontasks Competition
Final Report

TURTLE rover

2009 - Project Alshain: Lunar Flying Vehicle

First Place (Undergraduate) - NASA RASC-AL Student Design Competition
First Place - NASA ESMD Moontasks Competition
Final Report [PDF: 6.0 Mb; 215 pgs]
RASC-AL Summary Report [PDF: 2.3 Mb; 19 pgs]
RASC-AL Summary Presentation [PDF: 7.9 Mb; 65 pgs]
Moontasks Summary Report [PDF: 2.9 Mb; 36 pgs]
Critical Design Review Slide Package [PDF: 11.8 Mb; 211 pgs]
Preliminary Design Review Slide Package [PDF: 4.8 Mb; 140 pgs]
Poster Presentation [PDF: 4.2 Mb; 3 pgs]

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 - 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)

 

1994 - Orion: Design of a System for Assured Low-Cost Access to Space

 

1993 - MOOSE: Manned On-Orbit Servicing Equipment

Final Report [PDF: 16.7 Mb; 437 pgs] (scanned as NASA CR-197151 - contains 11-page summary report as preface)

 

1991 - DART: Delta Advanced Reusable Transport