Jason Rabinovitch & Nick Parziale Student Leads

Overview 5-day student competition where students from all over the world come to Caltech to design a human mission to a Martian Moon We provide you with the tools needed to create a successful mission in only 5 days Provide opportunity for students all across the world to interact with scientist/engineers from NASA and industry Goal is to Develop innovative strategies and solutions which could be applied towards future deep space missions.

The Mission Photo Credit: Mumu Xu

Mission A human mission to a Martian moon stays true to NASA’s flexible path approach that was advocated by the Augustine Committee. This mission is a Fundamental step on the way to human exploration of Mars, and our solar system. In 5 days, each team is challenged to design a mission to land humans on a Martian moon, either Phobos or Deimos, and return them along with a sample, safely to the Earth. The launch date of the mission may be no later than January 1st, 2041.

Deliverables and Judging Each team is required to: – Submit a final report by 1:30 PM 5/29/2013 – 1 hour presentation (50 minute presentation, 10 minute questions) on 5/29/2013 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Teams will be judged on their answers to the 5 questions by a panel of jurors

Space Challenge Participants Highly talented applicant pool of over 175 people! 21 universities and 11 countries represented

Handbook Information Problem statement and 5 questions Many useful design references – Launch vehicles – Radiation – Science examples – Team milestones and organization

Sponsors

“Rules” All lectures and meals are mandatory – Great way to interact with the speakers and people on the other team This is a “friendly” competition Don’t forget to sleep! Learn something and have fun

Good Luck Teams! Project Scientist for Voyager The following is a message from Professor Ed Stone

Ed Stone – 1 of 4 Welcome to the Caltech Space Challenge, where the challenge is to expand the five frontiers of space: The physical frontier- sending a human or a robot to new places The knowledge frontier- learning what is out there The technology frontier- the innovations needed to send systems and humans into space The human frontier- the physiological, psychological, and medical aspects affecting humans in space The applications frontiers- the use of space to benefit life on Earth

Ed Stone – 2 of 4 Your teams carry the names of two JPL missions that have expanded those frontiers… Explorer- the first US orbiting spacecraft that discovered the Van Allen belts of radiation trapped in Earth’s magnetic field

Ed Stone – 3 of 4 Voyager- that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and will soon become the first to explore interstellar space

Ed Stone – 4 of 4 In the coming week you will be challenged to build on that heritage to finds ways to expand further the frontiers of space with a human journey into deep space. It won’t be easy, but you will learn a lot and will have some fun! With my best wishes on the journey ahead, Ed Stone