M-Type Asteroid Sampling Simulator – PEACE on Psyche

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University (ASU)

CLASS

Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)

STUDENT TEAM

Carlos Rangel, Computer Science
Ilia Sorokin, Computer Science
Evander Laahs, Computer Science
Hoang Vu Tran, Computer Science
Will Nelson, Computer Science

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Helen Chavez
Steven Osburn

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project is an interactive educational simulation developed in Unity, designed to model a theoretical unmanned mission to the Psyche asteroid. Users navigate a rover across Psyche’s metallic surface, completing scientific objectives while learning about the asteroid’s composition and significance.

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This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “CSE 485/486”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.