Enabling a permanent and sustainable lunar presence
Presenter
:
Bryce Jensen
Co-Presenter(s)
:
Jason Knight-Han, Jesus Perez-Quintero, Walter Foster, Forest Yllescas
Presenter Status
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Undergraduate student
Academic Year
:
21-22
Semester
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Spring
Faculty Mentor
:
Nansong Wu
Department
:
Engineering
Funding Source/Program
:
Other
Other Funding Source/Program
:
NASA grant
President's Strategic Plan Goal
:
Sustainability and Environmental Inquiry
Presentation Link
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Abstract
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This research focused on designing, building and testing a robot for the task of harvesting regolith on the lunar surface by mining, transporting, and depositing regolith safely and allowing access to the regolith for future applications. This is Sonoma State’s first year competing in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) which is a competition for the purpose of enabling a sustainable lunar architecture as part of the larger Artemis Plan.