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The Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities (COSMIC) is working with academia to prepare the workforce through the COSMIC Capstone Challenge.
Summary
The Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities (COSMIC) is a nationwide coalition working to invigorate a domestic in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) capability. The COSMIC Capstone Challenge (C3) is a competition to design a payload, to be hosted about the BCT X-Sat Venus Class bus, that will demonstrate a chain of three or more operations that provide an on-orbit, autonomous ISAM capability. Successful projects will engage in the early design work necessary for a complex ISAM mission that could be ready for launch by the end of the decade.
Our guests are Seetha Raghavan, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies of the College of Engineering at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach Campus and Joey Heying, Senior Space Systems Architecture Engineer at The Aerospace Corporation.
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