Traian Bistriceanu

The National Space Society (NSS) Space Settlement Contest is an international competition that encourages students to envision and design future space habitats and settlements. Participants must provide detailed descriptions, technical details and scientific explanations. Proposals should be based on thorough research and innovative thinking.

Me and my team of 11 members designed a spaceship situated in the Sun-Jupiter Lagrangian point L1 and four other different modules spread throughout the solar system, able to sustain life autonomously for up to 10,000 people.

My contribution throughout this project consisted of:

• Deciding the spaceship's positioning
• Designing an interplanetary transport system
• Designing the mining module on the asteroid Psyche-16
• Designing the research module from the Kuiper Belt
• Designing the shielding subsystem
• Wrote, reviewed and edited parts of the technical document in concordance with the given requirements

This submission resulted in achieving the Gold Medal and presenting our work at the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) 2022, Washington D.C. and at Europe's Day in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

• For this prior submission me alongside my team achieved an Honourable Mention, competing with other 4,000 submissions.