Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Help Us Plan Our Space Mission (Seriously)

I'm excited about my graduate class next semester. I'll be taking the capstone course of the Space Systems graduate program at Florida Institute of Technology. The capstone course brings together everything you've learned in the program to plan an actual space mission. I've been selected for one of the teams next semester.

There's only one problem. We don't know what the payload is and where we're going! ;)

We could wait for the faculty tell us or we can come up with our own mission. So I'm throwing this out to the space tweeps out there. Are you a scientist with an idea for a spacecraft and a destination? Have you always thought to yourself "That would be a good mission.", but didn't have the resources to plan it out? One constraint is to keep it within today's available technology. In other words, nothing that requires warp drive, etc.

As a team we will come up with an entire plan. We'll pick the rocket, launch location, trajectory, etc. We're full service! ;)

The project starts the first week in January 2010. Please leave a comment on this post or e-mail me using the link on the right. You can even contact me on Twitter using @dborzillo.

"You are now free to roam about the solar system."



3 comments:

Unknown said...

Tethered ion drive powered atmospheric ramscoop a.k.a PROFAC. Three technologies, one of them a real game changer!

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Anonymous said...

How about a return trip to the moon? The technology is already there ;)