Photo by Violet Blue
The Regolith Excavation Challenge allows citizen inventors to participate by applying their talents to develop innovative solutions and new technologies to efficiently excavate lunar regolith.
The project is designed to promote the development of mechanical designs to excavate lunar regolith. Excavation is a necessary first step towards lunar resource utilization, and the unique physical properties of lunar regolith make excavation a difficult technical challenge. Advances in lunar regolith excavation have the potential to contribute significantly to the nation’s space exploration operations.
The rules will remain very similar to the 2008 competition, with the exception that they plan to allow teams to utilize telerobotic operations. Teams are eligible to receive first, second or third prize of $500k, $150k and $100k, respectively
Project owners + coordinators:
Matt Everingham
posted on Sep 27, 2009:
Just a quick note to let you know that another Regolith Excavation Challenge is expected later in 2009. In addition, California Space Authority is expected to continue as Co-Host of the event with the California Space Education and Workforce Institute.