Project Description:
As a collaboration between UMD and NASA Goddard's Outlier Team, the goal of the FLARE mission is to gain a better understanding of lunar south pole water content using a fleet of autonomous rovers, leveraging three scientific instruments provided by NASA Goddard. At a high level, the mission will:
- Survey the moon over a full lunar day (~24 Earth days):
- Traverse Shackleton-de Gerlache Ridge (SDR) to access multiple permanently shadowed regions (PSRs)
- Study surface, subsurface, and exospheric water content in and around PSRs
- ​ Transmit data to Earth
Advisor/Instructor:
Professor Brent BarbeeSponsor:
NASA GoddardTeam Members:
| Nalina Attanayake | Aerospace Engineering |
| Peter Capozzoli | Aerospace Engineering |
| William Cook | Aerospace Engineering |
| Athenais Culleron-Sun | Aerospace Engineering |
| Joseph Davis | Aerospace Engineering |
| Payten Flanigan | Aerospace Engineering |
| Jack Getz | Aerospace Engineering |
| Brian Glover | Aerospace Engineering |
| Aroni Gupta | Aerospace Engineering |
| Alexander Hernandez | Aerospace Engineering |
| Dmitri Kontchaev | Aerospace Engineering |
| Jordan Kreh | Aerospace Engineering |
| Gustavo Lang | Aerospace Engineering |
| Benjamin Loan | Aerospace Engineering |
| Nicholas Louloudes | Aerospace Engineering |
| Nathaniel Reid McIntyre | Aerospace Engineering |
| Justin Meyer | Aerospace Engineering |
| Henri Roviera | Aerospace Engineering |
| Fletcher Smith | Aerospace Engineering |
| Lillian Spych | Aerospace Engineering |
| Andrew Stevens | Aerospace Engineering |
| Zachary Zarus | Aerospace Engineering |