RASC-AL

PROJECT MISSION

Research, design, and present innovative solutions to real space-oriented problems with NASA’s RASC-AL competition! Work through NASA’s actual design process in the design of a Large-Scale Lunar Rover capable of prospecting in complete darkness.

First-row L-R: Duy Bui, Braden Hatfield, Drew Ruestman, Samuel Martinek, Valentina Bohorquez

Second-row L-R: Ethan Harrigan, Justin Balling, Mayank Ranjan, Flatrim Dreshaj, Jacob Roberts, Drew Glade

Not Pictured: Sanskar Lamichhane

Project Deliverables

  • Our first deliverable of the semester will be our Preliminary Design Review. This document/presentation aims to analyze the concept and material of our proposal. This presentation will serve as a precursor and drafted version of the proposal and, therefore, will contain the same depth of information.
  • Our second deliverable will be our proposal paper as well as the proposal video. These documents are vital, and are the main deliverable of the semester. This document will be completed by March 1st for review and edits. Its submission on March 7th is uncontestable, so concessions will be made to ensure this document and video are completed in full.
  • Our final deliverable for the semester will be our technical paper. This paper will be submitted to NASA and is only required when we are selected as a finalist team. This document will fully analyze our design, including all math, theory, and analysis we have performed over the year.”

Project Goals

RASC-AL is a NASA-sponsored project that allows for students to learn about the real processes that are taken for advanced design. Over the course of a year, we will submit a notice of intent, resulting in us presenting in Florida to industry leaders. To maximize the benefit to our members this year, we have set ourselves many deadlines beyond NASA’s requirements. Throughout this year, we will need to complete a list of deliverables in order to deliver a comprehensive project. These deliverables include a mission concept review, systems requirements review, systems design review, preliminary design review, video proposal, and final presentation. All of these deliverables correspond to the deadlines provided below and will serve as goals throughout the year-long project. In March, Our team will complete RASC-AL’s proposal and video submission. Completing this deadline will allow us to be selected as finalists in April. Through May, we will complete a bundle of reservations as well as submitting our technical paper for our proposal. Lastly, in June, we will be uploading our final documents, being the presentation chart deck, and digital poster. By working as a team to meet our objectives and achieve our final goal of being selected to present directly to the NASA team in June, we will have achieved our goals.


Next Steps

Please choose the second video in the dropdown on the left upper corner (day 2) and go to 1h 34m and 14s to see SCARCE