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Level 1 Requirements:
- Use existing or projected Commercial Launch Vehicles (Assume 40 tonnes maximum to LEO)
- Keep funding less than 1/3 of total NASA budget
- Total project length less than ten years
- Use NASA DRM 3 as point of departure
- Use UT student project Spring 2001 results
- Assume international participation
- References:
- Mandell: "Mars Surface Rendezvous Architecture"
- Hoffman, S., "Mars Surface Reference Mission"
Candidate Tasks:
- Design a Mars surface operations assembly sequence and logic
- Design each launch package (provide higher fidelity definition)
- Define Requirements for and Design Mars Surface Operations devices:
- Robotic handling and assembly
- Utility Deployment Devices (Trenchers, Deployment Robots, etc.)
- Utility Modules (Power, Water, Thermal Mgt, Waste Mgt, etc.)
- Human transport
- Etc.
- Provide coordinated development schedules and costs for major elements (mandatory for any project chosen)
- Develop a mockup (virtual or actual) of the initial Mars base
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