Mining in space: How Colorado students and engineers are helping NASA plan for lunar colonization
Students at the Colorado School of Mines have partnered with Lunar Outpost, a space exploration company based in Arvada, to tackle NASA’s challenge.
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Students at the Colorado School of Mines have partnered with Lunar Outpost, a space exploration company based in Arvada, to tackle NASA’s challenge.
“The goal was to build an economically feasible set of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar-PV installations, for a campus or urban district,” the post said. Twenty-eight teams from 29 different universities participated in the contest, which was judged by a panel of industry and Department of Energy experts. The CU team was made up of Eli Hinerfeld, Jeff Jones, Ben Kite, Devin Lindsey, Hannah Livingston, Drew Martin, Darin Meeker, Avery Ostrand, Emily Trautwein and Jiselle Ye. © 2021 BizWest Media LLC BOULDER — A team of University of Colorado engineering students took top prize...