University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Spring 2026

MIRAJ

The M.I.R.A.J. is a conceptual nuclear-electric deep-space transport platform to enable rapid, flexible, and repeatable missions across the outer solar system.

Asteroid Truck

The Asteroid Truck mission presents an autonomous spacecraft designed to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid and relocate it into a stable lunar orbit for future resource utilization.

Eco-Plane

The Eco-Plane is a conceptual 50-passenger regional aircraft engineered to reduce short-haul aviation carbon emissions by 80%.

King Fisher

The KingFisher is an autonomous, trans-medium uncrewed vehicle designed to revolutionize operations and maintenance for the offshore wind industry.

Helldivers

The H.E.L.L.D.I.V.E.R.S. team developed an innovative Mars entry, descent, and landing (EDL) system that intentionally embeds a lander into the Martian regolith to create a stable foundation for future human infrastructure.

Project Redshift

Project Redshift explores the feasibility of humanity’s first interstellar reconnaissance mission to Proxima Centauri b, the closest known potentially habitable exoplanet.

Project SPINS

Project S.P.I.N.S. explores an innovative approach to transporting cargo from the lunar surface to orbit using a reusable spin-launch system instead of traditional chemical rockets.

TALON

The Titan Autonomous Lander for Observation and Navigation.(T.A.L.O.N.) project is a conceptual spacecraft mission.