Future Power Solutions for Exploring Hypothesized Surfaces – Team 26

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University (ASU)

CLASS

Platinum Class (2025 – 2026)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Team 26’s project is centered around designing and testing a solar concentrator for NASA 16-Psyche Missions. Using a Fresnel lens as a concentrator Team 26 has constructed a simple experiment to test the viability of solar concentration at a 3AU distance. This will help to justify implementations for future deep space missions.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “EEE 488.” 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.