NASA L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy

Certificate of Completion Fall 2021 L'SPACE Mykyta Dementyev.pdf

During Fall 2021 I participated in a Mission Concept Academy, which is a STEM Workforce Development Workshop organized by people from NASA. Mission Concept Academy is a program that teaches its students to write a Preliminary Design Report (PDR) for missions that take place in space.

The mission of this session was to send a spacecraft to Mars to Analyze water ice.

Role: Science Team Leader

My responsibilities:

  • Guide a team of scientists

  • Establish the Scientific Objectives

  • Pick the instrumentation for the success of the mission

  • Establish criteria for the success of the mission

Scientific Objectives of the missions:

  • Measure the thickness of ice

  • Analyze density variations in the ice

  • Analyze any impurities in the ice

  • Look at the bed topography under the ice sheets

Scientific Instrumentation used for this mission: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)


PDR Submission