Future Power Solutions for Exploring Hypothesized Surfaces – Sol Collectors/Modular Solar Power System

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University (ASU)

CLASS

Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Dr Cassie Bowman
Dr James McDonald

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Modular Solar Power System (MSPS) is an electrical engineering (power systems) capstone project that is designed to solve the challenge of harvesting solar power in deep space for future surface exploration on the asteroid 16-Psyche.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “___”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.asu.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.