ARES

Tasks Performed:

• Helped prepare Preliminary design review(PDR) document for the ARES mission design.

• Designed the 3D CAD for the rover, science instruments and propulsion system as shown in the images below

• Prepared a power budget table to get an estimate of the total power required by the battery and solar panels used on board.

• Used online resources to find the relation between the solar panel surface area required for the estimated power supply.

• Researched the baking procedures to be used to produce bricks using the Martian samples so collected.

• Designed the electronics and communication system of the rover system with the Martian orbiter.

• Designed the hybrid propulsion system for the skycrane deployments system for landing the rover from the aeroshell to the Martian surface. Researched the fuel and oxidizer to be used with constraints on the thrust produced, Isp value , and weight. Calculated the surface area of the nozzle to get the optimum thrust.

Lessons Learned:

• As a sophomore year student, I self-learned the Fusion 360 software to contribute towards designing the rover used for this mission

• Gained technical writing skills. The PDR sections follows specific AIAA standards and so was able to learn writing a professional technical document

• Learned about the various subsystems involved in the designing of the rover like power, thermal, communications, electrical, structural and payload subsystem.