Landing System for Hypothesized Surfaces – 05C

INSTITUTION

Cleveland State University (CSU)

CLASS

Platinum Class (2025 – 2026)

STUDENT TEAM

Thomas Ridler, Mechanical Engineering

Abdullah Shariff, Mechanical Engineering

Mark Gaines, Mechanical Engineering

Jay Grzep, Mechanical Engineering

Adam Elkhatib, Mechanical Engineering

Waleed Alrashidi, Mechanical Engineering

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Cassie Bowman

Bogdan Kozul

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Psyche Capstone Team extensively researched the asteroid Psyche, learned about data collection and exploration missions to celestial bodies, and designed unique components to aid a hypothetical sample collection mission.

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This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Cleveland State University Capstone Course “MCE 450/1.” 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.