MATER_RASC-AL_2025

This is the publicly avaliable GitHub Repository for the Illinois Space Society's 2025 RASC-AL project: Mars Architecture for Technology Evaluation and Research (MATER).

High Level Overview

• Digital_Model

  • This folder contains all the necessary code to run the digital model of MATER the was developed
  • The complete data set of all payload paramters and commands are avliable as .csv files
  • This includes the custom classes for payloads as .py files, the simulator itself as juptyer notebook, and the analysis tools as a juptyer notebook
  • Sample data set avalibale as .json file, full data set is too large to share, but is easily generated

• Mission_Selection

  • This folder contains all the code and data used to complete the trade space analysis
  • The complete data set of all NASA Civil Space Shortfall and science objectives and associated scores are stored in .csv files
  • The complete data set of Analog Payloads are stored in .csv files
  • The code for the implementation of the score function and the differential evolution genetic algorithm are in Jupyter notebooks
  • The code for the convergence and stablity analysis are aviable in Jupyter notebooks

• Payload_Calculations

  • This folder contains miscellaneous hand calulations used for a varitey of payloads
  • Most are in the form of a Jupyter notebook or a .xlsx file