IPEx Experiment

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Co-designed an experiment that evaluates regolith collection geometries using bucket drum excavation technology. This custom vacuum chamber houses rotating bucket drums sections of varied geometries to analyze their interactions with lunar regolith simulant. This experiment was flown aboard a Blue Origin New shepherd rocket in February of 2025.

More information on this experiment can be found on NASA's article here.

This top-down assembly animation of the payload was made in PTC Creo.