One might require a powerful drill to bore into an asteroid's ice core; another needs a dexterous robot arm to repair a satellite; and a third needs a stable shovel to collect soil samples.
In most cases, that would take three different ships and, depending on distance, three different trips. The ship's design allows major parts to be swapped out for whatever mission is at hand.
This includes the engine that powers it. One of the biggest problems with space travel is that fuel isn't readily available outside of Earth, and the team at ERAU is working on solving that problem, too.
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To do that, it plans to develop specialized engines for different environments. Serafin gave an example of melting ice from Jupiter's moon Europa to create steam to power the spacecraft or using carbon dioxide, which is found in Mars' atmosphere, to fuel it.
While they first need to get to Mars, it helps to know what to expect.
For that, the team is using a virtual reality program that uses actual maps of Mars in its simulated missions. While practicing in ERAU's Engineering Physics Propulsion Lab, one student wears a set of VR goggles and tells the ship what to do while another supervises and makes sure the ship is operating correctly, Serafin said.
The goal now, as it would be in space, is to conduct a successful simulated mission from a safe site. From there, a set of instructions would be sent to the ship allowing it perform the actual mission, Pastrana said.
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While the mission would be safer because people wouldn't be on the ship, the group aims to corner the market by focusing on another aspect businesses care about: the bottom line. To do that, the students plan to create a scalable design of multiple ships ranging in size from as small as a drone to as large as a bus.
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