2017 Challenge

2017 Finalist Teams

First Place: Tulane University
Title: The Sunflower, A Modular and Hexagonally Symmetric SEP Cargo Transport Spacecraft
Faculty Advisor: Timothy Schuler
Presentation

2017 BIG Idea Challenge Winners from Tulane University, from left to right, Matthew Gorban, Dr. Timothy Schuler, Maxwell Woody, Otto Lyon, Ethan Gasta, Afsheen Sajjadi, John Robertson, and Mary Beth Wusk (NASA LaRC)
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Second Place: University of Maryland
Title: 200 kW / 500 kW Solar-electric Modular Flexible Kinetic Escort (SMo-FlaKE)
Faculty Advisor: David Akin
Presentation
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Georgia Institute of Technology with the University of Texas at Austin and New York University
Title: An Elegant and Innovative Design for In-Space Assembly: Optimizing Modularity through an Umbrella Mechanism
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Schrage
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University of Colorado
Title: Odysseus
Faculty Advisor: Brian Sanders
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University of Maryland
Title: A Reusable Modular Solar Electric Propulsion Space Tug (SEP) to Transfer Payloads from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (LDRO)
Faculty Advisor: David Akin