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Created by Anna Skopenko on 10 January, 2018

New GrabCAD Challenge: NASA Challenge: Super Heavy Logistics Transport for the Moon and Mars

Hello GrabCAD Community. We got a new challenge for your and your amazing designs and minds. NASA has come back again with a new challenge and here are some details.




This NASA challenge is to develop a super heavy surface transportation system for use on both the Moon and Mars. The system should be assumed to be deployed prior to the establishment of surface infrastructure – in a sense it could be the first infrastructure element. It must be capable of transporting the Common Habitat, a large, monolithic payload measuring 15.6 meters in length, 8.4 meters in diameter, and massing just under 100,000 kg. This system will transport the Common Habitat a distance of up to 5 kilometers from its delivery lander to its surface outpost location. This traverse path is unprepared surface terrain with slopes up to 20 degrees.


If you want to learn more please click here to check out the challenge.