2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge

The 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge is a national prize competition under NASA Centennial Challenges to promote the development of new technologies to excavate lunar regolith. Excavation is a necessary first step towards lunar resource utilization, and the unique physical properties of lunar regolith make excavation a difficult technical challenge. Advances in lunar regolith excavation have the potential to contribute significantly to the nation’s space exploration operations.

Teams will compete to build the autonomous and mobile excavator that can extract the most simulated lunar regolith within power, mass, and time constraints. Prize funding is provided by the NASA Centennial Challenges program. Visit the web site for details.
http://regolith.csewi.org