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California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge
NASA awards $1.5 in the Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, a Centennial Challenges competition for lunar regolith excavation and transportation.
The team, led by Saurav Shroff and lead engineer Mihir Gondhalekar, developed a robotic mining tool that features a drum barrel scraping mechanism for breaking into the tough lunar surface. “Terra Engineering’s rover, especially, bridged several of the technology gaps that we identified – for instance, being robust and resilient enough to traverse rocky landscapes and survive the harsh conditions of the lunar South Pole.” Beyond the $1.5 million in prize funds, three teams will be given the chance to use Marshall Space Flight Center’s thermal vacuum (TVAC) chambers to continue testing and developing their robots.
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