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Project Updates:
Project SCORPIUS (formerly RAINFROG) has been selected as a finalist for the RASC-AL competition. More about the competition can be found here: RASC-AL Finalists
Our team is excited to represent the University of Texas as one of the selected 15 teams. We need you help now more than ever in order to build a prototype of SCORPIUS!
RAINFROG is a University of Texas senior design team competing in the NASA RASC-AL Theme 3 competition to design a heavy-payload terrain transporter for use on the moon. NASA is ushering in a new era of lunar exploration igniting the capability of extraterrestrial exploration and creating newfound public access to the moon. To achieve this lofty goal, the new series of Artemis lunar missions will establish crucial research in finding fuel and electric sources on the moon and delivering large equipment for initial construction of an active permanent human lunar presence. As a part of this plan, NASA needs a large vehicle capable of loading and transporting heavy payloads across significant distances on the moon, as well as to provide aid to other missions such as large-scale building construction.
 Space Launch System |  Orion Spacecraft |  Base Camp |
Our team of industry-experienced engineering students have worked at or have accepted offers to Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Firefly Aerospace, NASA Johnson Space Center, and Masten Space Systems. We are diligently working on an innovative design to help fulfill NASA’s need for this multi-capable vehicle. If NASA highly rates our design, RAINFROG. Our team will favorably represent the University of Texas and the academic prestige of the Cockrell School of Engineering. We need your help to make the RAINFROG mission a success! We ask for funding to build a working prototype for testing and demonstration, graphic design and animation expertise to effectively communicate our design, and basic travel expenses to the official RASC-AL competition in Florida in June. All funds will be used for RASC-AL teams. The funds not used for our team this year will go directly to the RASC-AL teams in the following years.
We thank you for your generosity! - UT RAINFROG Aerospace Engineering Senior Design
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54 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon for the first time in Human history.
The gravity felt on the moon is 1.63m/s^2 (That is 1/6 of what is felt on Earth)
RAINFROG will be traveling up to 1000m for each payload delivery (That is over 9 football fields long)
