Each year students choose and develop a mission concept based on opportunities that have been identified at the start of the program. It is crucial that each mission has some real world application backed up by sound scientific effort, but we allow some tolerance for lower TRL engineering. Here are the missions that have been developed so far;
Class of 2021
HADES
H1 Absorption in the Dark Ages
Class of 2022
SIZLE
SmallSat to Image Zodiacal Light Above Ecliptic
Class of 2023
STARLITE
Superluminous Tomographic Atmospheric Reconstruction with Laser-beacons for Imaging Terrestrial Exoplanets
Class of 2024
Mini-Luna
Rendezvous with and analysis of mini-moon
(temporarily captured orbiter) in cislunar space