The previous editions of the Caltech Space Challenge were featured in more than 40 press releases and produced a total of 11 academic publications. A complete list of press features and academic publications is available below.
Press articles
2019 Caltech Space Challenge
Students Chart a Course to Enceladus - Caltech News
'Space Challenge' Brings Brightest Young Minds Together in Pasadena to Plan the Mission to Saturn's Most Habitable Moon - Pasadena Now
2017 Caltech Space challenge
Airbus Defence and Space is the main sponsor of the 2017 Caltech Space Challenge - Airbus Defence and Space
Honeybee Robotics Sponsors the 2017 Caltech Space Challenge - Honeybee Robotics
Mining the moon for rocket fuel to get us to Mars - The Conversation and ABC, Space.com, and Phys.org
The 2017 Caltech Space Challenge will see students design a Moon base for deep space exploration - Tech2
Getting to Mars: Moon mines and space station fueling depots for safer, less expensive trips - Inquisitr
Caltech Space Challenge - World Journal (Chinese)
Students to Plan Moon Base for Deep-Space Exploration at Next Week's Caltech Space Challenge - Pasadena Now
Boots on Mars - Pasadena Weekly
Students to Plan Moon Base for Deep-Space Exploration - Now@Caltech
Putting MBA Skills to Use in the Caltech Space Challenge - Yale School of Management
Gary Li participates in the 2017 Caltech Space Challenge - Wirz Research Group
Caltech Space Challenge - Iowa Space Grant Consortium
Caltech Space Challenge - Apply Now! - The University of Adelaide
2015 Caltech Space Challenge
Students Compete to Design Manned Asteroid Mission - SPACE.com
NASA gets IIT researcher’s inputs for asteroid landing - The Hindu
2015 Caltech Space Challenge Selects 32 International Students - New Hampshire Voice
Caltech 2015 Space Challenge yields big ideas about future of space exploration - Pasadena Star News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Caltech challenges 32 international students to design a manned mission to an asteroid - Pasadena Star News
Caltech Space Challenge: Mission to an Asteroid in Lunar Orbit - Now@Caltech
On a mission: Aerospace engineering's Conte selected for Caltech Space Challenge - Penn State News
Can people really land on an asteroid? Concordia student to participate in the Caltech Space Challenge - Concordia University News
Aerospace Student Participates in Caltech Space Challenge - Cal Poly Aerospace Engineering
2013 Caltech Space Challenge
Caltech Challenges Students to Plan Manned Mission to Mars Moon - SPACE.com
Mission to Mars Moon: Student Team Wins Phobos Spaceflight Challenge - SPACE.com
Phobos Plan Wins Caltech 'Space Challenge' Contest - Huffington Post Science
Photo Gallery: Caltech Space Challenge - Los Angeles Times
Missions to Mars moon Phobos designed in Caltech Space Challenge - Pasadena Star-News
Future space explorers tour JPL - La Canada Valley Sun
The Caltech Space Challenge: Mission to a Martian Moon - Caltech Today
2013 Caltech Space Challenge - Division of Engineering and Applied Science (Caltech)
2011 Caltech Space Challenge
Students design human asteroid mission in Caltech Space Challenge - The Planetary Society Blog
Caltech Space Challenge kicks off as students work to design mission to asteroid - Pasadena Star-News
Caltech contest challenges students to prepare asteroid mission - Southern California Public Radio
In Neck and Neck Competition, Team Voyager Wins the Caltech Space Challenge - Caltech Today
Caltech Space Challenge: Mission to an Asteroid - Caltech Today
Academic Publications
2017 Caltech Space Challenge
Carberry Mogan, S., Kurzrok, A., Anand, A., Ben Hamida, S., Buhler, P., Crews, D., DeLatte, D., Diaz Ramos, M.F., Gilleron, J., Lysandrou, P. and Marquis, A., 2017. 2017 Caltech Space Challenge-Lunarport: Lunar Extraction for Extraterrestrial Prospecting (LEEP). In AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (p. 5375).
Casanova, S., Henry de Frahan, J., Guimaraes Goecks, V., Herath, S., Herreras Martinez, M., Jamieson, N., Jones, T., Kang, S.W., Katz, S., Li, G. and O'Sullivan, D., 2017. Enabling Deep Space Exploration with an In-Space Propellant Depot Supplied from Lunar Ice. In AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (p. 5376).
Gilleron, J., DeLatte, D., O'Sullivan, D., Lysandrou, P., Sparta, J. and Li, G., 2017. Lunarport concept - a launch and supply station for deep space missions: a comparative study of the two concepts developed at the 2017 Caltech Space Challenge. 10th IAA Symposium on the Future of Space Exploration, Torino, Italy.
Gat, I. and Talon, T., 2017, March. Lunarport: A proposed Lunar-resource station to expand deep-space travel horizons. In Aerospace Conference, 2017 IEEE (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
2015 Caltech Space Challenge
Conte, D., Di Carlo, M., Ho, K., Spencer, D.B. and Vasile, M., 2018. Earth-Mars transfers through Moon distant retrograde orbits. Acta Astronautica, 143, pp.372-379.
Roa, J. and Handmer, C.J., 2015. Quantifying hazards: asteroid disruption in lunar distant retrograde orbits. arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.03800.
2013 Caltech Space Challenge
Price, J.B., Tanner, M.M., Krishnamoorthy, S., Chadwick, A.R., Dahir, A.R., Kumar, A., Williams, A.A., Thomas, C.P., Igbinosun, O.J., Nizenkov, P. and Schlottke, K.M., Nathanson, E., Hall, S. A., Do, S., Kolmas, J., and Hassan, B. N. 2014. A design proposal for Asaph-1: A human mission to Phobos. The Journal of Space Operations, 11(2).
Bosanac, N., Diaz, A., Dang, V., Ebersohn, F., Gonzalez, S., Qi, J., Sweet, N., Tie, N., Valentino, G., Fraeman, A., Gibbings, A., Maddox, T., Nie, C., Rankin, J., Rebelo, T., and Taylor, G. 2014, March. Manned sample return mission to phobos: A technology demonstration for human exploration of Mars. In Aerospace Conference, 2014 IEEE (pp. 1-20). IEEE.
Rabinovitch, J., Mihaly, J., Parziale, N., Mehrotra, P., Cymbalist, N., Burgoyne, H., Qi, J., and Duckworth, H. 2014. The Caltech Space Challenge: Lessons Learned and Future Plans. International Astronautical Congress, Toronto, Canada
2011 Caltech Space Challenge
Rabinovitch, J., Goel, A., Niedzielska, U., Ganesan, S. and Forman, R., 2012. Vault-1-a mission architecture for human exploration of near-earth objects. In AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference & Exposition (p. 5113).
Alibay, F., Frick, A., Timmons, E. and Frank, E., 2012. Finding NEO: A manned mission to a Near-Earth Object. In AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference & Exposition (p. 5297).
