Future Power Solutions for Exploring Hypothesized Surfaces – R-S-B Group
INSTITUTION
Penn State University – Behrend (PSB)
CLASS
Platinum Class (2025 – 2026)
STUDENT TEAM
Daniel Kowatch, Electrical Engineering
Lucian Hall, Electrical Engineering
ACADEMIC GUIDANCE
Azeemuddin Syed, Advisor
Timothy Kurzweg, Director of the School of Engineering
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The problem that was faced by this team was the requirement of developing a power solution for a new mission to asteroid 16 Psyche’s surface. This problem had restrictions in weight and size the solution could take. The team’s goal was to come up with a power solution and then verify that this solution would work on Psyche with the conditions that are present there.
This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Penn State University Capstone Course “ECE 25-26/14.” 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.
