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Projects: Apophis Mission Design CompetitionThe Winning TeamsThe Planetary Society conducted a competition in 2007 and 2008 to design a mission to rendezvous with and "tag" a near-Earth asteroid such as Apophis. In this competition, Apophis, currently with a one in a few thousand probability of striking Earth in 2036, was treated as an example to facilitate mission design. The purpose of the competition was to gather a diverse and large suite of entries that could be a creative and useful starting point for a potential space agency project to tag any asteroid that may be coming dangerously close to Earth. The Planetary Society awarded $40,000 in prize money among three winners of the open competion, and split an additional $10,000 among four notable student entries.
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First Prize Winner: Foresight
Team Leader: Mark G. Schaeffer, SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc., Atlanta,
GA, USA
Team Members: SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc.: A.C. Charania, John R. Olds, Ben Stahl, Nicholas
Boechler, Dominic DePasquale.
SpaceDev, Inc.: Jesse Koenig
Second Prize Winner: A-Track
Team Leader: Juan L. Cano, Deimos Space S.L., Madrid, Spain
Team Members: Deimos Space: Stefania Cornara, Francesco Cacciatore,
Mariano Sánchez, Noelia Sánchez.
EADS
Astrium: Andreas Rathke,
Uwe Schäfer, Rainer Lang, Roland Lemke.
University
of Stuttgart: Rene
Laufer, Oliver Zeile.
University of Pisa: Andrea Milani Comparetti.
Third Prize Winner: APEX
Team Leader: Paolo D'Arrigo, EADS Astrium Ltd., United Kingdom
Team Members: EADS Astrium Ltd, UK: Elie Allouis, Simon
Barraclough, Stephen Kemble, Marie-Claire Perkinson, Angelo Povoleri, Christian
Trenkel, Mark Watt.
EADS Astrium SAS, France: Xavier Sembely.
IASF-Roma, INAF, Rome, Italy: Andrea Carusi.
Open
University, UK: Stephen D.Wolters.
Rheinisches Institut für Umweltforschung, Germany: Martin Paetzold.
Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium: Veronique Dehant, Ozgur Karatekin.
Telespazio, Italy: Ettore Perozzi.
Spacecraft Engineering Consultant, UK: Robert Parkinson
Student Competition
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First Prize Winner: Pharos
Team Leader: Jonathan Sharma, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Team Members: Georgia Institute of Technology: Jarret
Lafleur, Kreston Barron, Jonathan Townley, Nilesh Shah, Jillian Apa.
Faculty Advisors: Robert Braun and Joseph Saleh.
Second Prize Winner (Tie): Oracle
Team: Dilani Kahawala and Hemant Chaurasia, Monash University, Clayton
Campus, Australia
Faculty
advisors: Stewart Jenvey, Shahin Khoddam.
Second Prize Winner (Tie): RA
Team Leader: Jeremy Hollander, University of Michigan, USA
Team Members: University of Michigan: Eli Busen;
David Burns; Bogdan Oaida; Kartik Ghorakavi; Joan Ervin; Aaron Maurice;
Danielle Raghoobar; Ashley Smetana; Christopher Ruswick; Adam Brinckerhoff;
Cameron Haag; Michael Lash; Karan Patel; Joshua Roe; Leif Knag;
Vincenzo Guglielmello; Luqman Adris; Andrew Chang;
Jung-Sik Yu; Eric Gillman; Roger Howland; Jeffrey Moss; Carl Jones, Jr.;
Erik Komendera; Preat Kansal; Alexander Murray; Jennifer Sheffield;
Matthew Van Kirk; Daniel Austin; Jonathan Overly; Patrick Bush;
Jonathan Fortin; Catlin Garcia; Jeffrey Honse; Steven Lee; Danielle Layher;
Pamela Reasor; Trisha Donajkowski; Michael Feldman; Nathaniel Meredith;
Christopher Williams; Christopher Brown; Rahul Nevatia; Stephen Cardani;
Corinne Gatto; Matthew Holmes; Richard Redick; Yang Li.
Faculty Advisors: Anouck
Girard and Peter Washabaugh.
Honorable Mention, Most Innovative Student Proposal: Houyi
Team: Peter Weiss, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Winnie
Leung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Faculty Advisor: Tze-chuen
Ng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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