COSMIC Capstone Challenge Finals Were A Success!
On April 14th -16th, COSMIC’s Workforce Development Focus Area hosted the First Annual COSMIC Capstone Challenge (C3) Showcase.
Twenty-three groups of 230+ college students from around the country showcased their presentations in competition to develop In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) concepts.
This first-of-its-kind competition saw student leaders present their knowledge, creativity, and ingenuity by developing hypothetical payloads which could demonstrate a chain of three or more operations providing on-orbit, autonomous ISAM capabilities.
Teams had 30 minutes to present their concepts, conclusions, and answer questions from leading engineers throughout the aerospace sector, including from NASA, Air Force, FFRDCs, and companies big and small who served as judges.
Over the three-day competition, presentations were made in-person and virtually spanning the El Segundo, California campus of The Aerospace Corporation and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
“The COSMIC C3 participants have been absolutely brilliant,” said Jacob Rome, a COSMIC Workforce Development Focus Area co-lead. “The creativity and ingenuity brought forth by the students, combined with the mentorship and perspective of the experts who are volunteering their time, have produced some truly novel concepts that I suspect could be adopted for real demonstrations over the next few years.”
The winners of C3 will be announced in the coming days.
You can watch the three days of presentations on the COSMIC YouTube channel here.