This paper provides the background, status and ongoing plans by NASA’s CentennialChallenges Program (CCP) in developing “Break the Ice Lunar Challenge”. This challenge will enable the development of excavation technologies that can operate in the extreme conditions on the Moon. As a direct result of NASA’s Space Policy Directive 1 (To the Moon, then Mars”), CCP organized a kickoff meeting in October 2019 where Subject Matter Experts (SME) from various NASA centers got together and identified the technology gaps in the areas of Lunar Excavation, Manufacturing, and Construction. Following the kickoff meeting, CCP in partnership with external challenge consultants conducted in-depth interviews with experts from academia, industry, and NASA over a period of two months to further identify any technology gaps and the status of the current state of the art technologies in these areas. Through these activities, we determined that there is sufficient need and opportunity to move forward and develop this into a robust challenge. As a nextstep, CCP organized a workshop in February 2020 where experts from academia, industry, NASA, and other government agencies met to validate the specific technology need and prioritize those needs in such a way that the potential challenge can address the high priority needs. Since the completion of this workshop, a core challenge development team has been working on the challenge scenarios, rules, and requirements with the goal to open the challenge in Nov 2020.


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    Title :

    Overview of NASA's Break the Ice Lunar Challenge


    Contributors:
    Monsi Roman (author) / Naveen Vetcha (author) / Mike Fiske (author)

    Conference:

    AIAA ASCEND Conference ; 2020 ; Virtual, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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