December 11, 2017
“Through the 2018 RASC-AL Special Edition: Mars Ice Challenge, NASA will provide university-level engineering students with the opportunity to design and build prototype hardware that can extract water from simulated Martian subsurface ice. Multiple teams will be chosen through a proposal and down-select process that assesses the teams’ concepts and progress throughout the year.
Carnegie Mellon is one of ten finalists and will travel to the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA during the summer of 2018 to participate in a multi-day competition where the universities’ prototypes will compete to extract the most water from simulated Martian subsurface ice over a two-day period. Each Martian simulated subsurface ice station will be comprised of layers, including overburden and solid blocks of ice. The total simulated subsurface ice depth will not exceed 1.0 meter. Teams may drill multiple holes. The water extraction system is subject to mass, volume, and power constraints.” link here
Cote selected for NASA Mars Ice Challenge team
MSE senior, Tim Cote has been selected for the NASA Mars Ice Challenge team. He is primarily responsible for design and fabrication of the drill and frame, along with researching issues in a Mars path to flight.“Through the 2018 RASC-AL Special Edition: Mars Ice Challenge, NASA will provide university-level engineering students with the opportunity to design and build prototype hardware that can extract water from simulated Martian subsurface ice. Multiple teams will be chosen through a proposal and down-select process that assesses the teams’ concepts and progress throughout the year.
Carnegie Mellon is one of ten finalists and will travel to the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA during the summer of 2018 to participate in a multi-day competition where the universities’ prototypes will compete to extract the most water from simulated Martian subsurface ice over a two-day period. Each Martian simulated subsurface ice station will be comprised of layers, including overburden and solid blocks of ice. The total simulated subsurface ice depth will not exceed 1.0 meter. Teams may drill multiple holes. The water extraction system is subject to mass, volume, and power constraints.” link here