Mayer earned the lunar-table prize

Update on the Qualification of the Hakuto Micro-rover for the Google Lunar X-Prize

In the past several years, due to the proliferation of cubesat and micro-satellite missions, several companies have started offering off-the-shelf space-ready hardware[3]. These products offer a welcome reduction in cost but do not solve a major problem for space robotics designers: available space-ready controllers are years behind COTS microprocessors and microcontrollers in terms of performa...

The Mayer Homology Theory

EDWIN H. SPANIER

Earned - Value Management Terminology

To the Editor: Although I enjoyed the article titled “Value-Based Software Engineering: A Case Study” (Barry Boehm and Li Guo Huang, March 2003, pp. 33-41), as a newly minted Project Management Professional and a contributor to the Project Management Institute’s Earned Value Analysis team, I was disappointed with the authors’ use of nonstandard terminology. The authors renamed the traditional t...

The Prize

The Sooner Lunar Schooner: Lunar Engineering Education

The Sooner Lunar Schooner is a multi-disciplinary ongoing project at the University of Oklahoma to plan, design, prototype, cost and (when funds become available) build/contract and fly a robotic mission to the Moon. The goal of the flight will be to explore a small section of the Moon; conduct a materials analysis of the materials left there by an Apollo mission thirty years earlier; and to pe...