Hunters of Artemis| Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Sample!

Project Details

The Challenge | Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Sample!

You are the astronaut/robotic mission lead tasked with bringing valuable specimens from the Moon back to Earth for further study. How will you evaluate lunar samples quickly and effectively before or while still on the mission? How will you differentiate samples of potential scientific value from less interesting material?

Robots can do Apollo, Astronauts can do Artemis

Using existing space assets for maximizing lunar sample return value. Robots can do the grunt work. Astronauts can do the specialist deep coring tasks.

Hunter of Artemis

“Robots can do Apollo; Astronauts can do Artemis”

Why?

Our team has always been fascinated by the moon. That ever-glowing nightly companion where astronauts first set foot 50 years ago. As engineers, we are forever driven by the quest for efficiency in the systems we develop. Astronaut time is extremely expensive and precious, so we believe it is the most practical. Sending humans to the moon is also incredibly dangerous and using robotic missions to accomplish a lot of the goals reduces risk and cost. Pre-locating operational resources via robotic means that astronauts could create mission critical supplies in-situ.

What?

We propose a four-phase mission plan that would reduce the overall expenditure of astronaut time on the lunar surface and increase the quality of lunar samples returned to Earth.