AD ASTRA
To the Stars, Through Hardships
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To the Stars, Through Hardships
A glimpse of our journey, triumphs, and key milestones in space robotics competitions.
Ad Astra is a student-run, multidisciplinary team driven to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers to explore the Red Planet's habitability. Students from various disciplines and technical clubs from Sri Sairam Institutions were shortlisted and handpicked based on their interest and skillset.
Our team comprises 89 space enthusiasts with inquisitive minds who want to learn and work with extraterrestrial robotics in preparation for upcoming human exploration of Mars.
Establish an accessible platform for students to engage in advanced R&D in space robotics technology.
Design, build, and operate rovers capable of exploring and conducting scientific experiments on other planets.
Advance technological frontiers in autonomous navigation, dexterous manipulation, and extreme retrieval.
Our long-term aspirations center around building an outstanding foundation for student-led aerospace research and development.
We design, validate, and execute mission-critical systems that push the limits of planetary exploration and rover engineering.
We develop innovative technologies and software systems to address complex planetary exploration challenges.
Our rovers are built to combat the most devastating Mars-simulated terrains.
A robust perception architecture designed for reliable operation across complex unstructured terrain, enabling traversal between gates via GNSS and computer vision.
Precision control using a 6-DOF robotic arm to perform complex maintenance: opening panels, operating switches, typing on keyboards, and turning valves.
Vacuum-based high-suction soil acquisition and onboard spectrometers to conduct on-site biological analysis, hunting for extremophiles.
Traversing rugged drops and rock fields to pick up heavy payloads (like toolboxes and water bottles) and accurately deliver them to astronauts in the field.
It takes a village to build a rover. Discover the brilliant minds behind our electrical, software, mechanical, and science subsystems.
Meet The Entire TeamOur partners fuel our vision of building rovers for interplanetary exploration.
