Artemis Supersonic Transport
NASA ARMD Undergraduate Entry
Design driver: Maximize value of the aircraft (including marketing presence)
Team Composition
Project Guidelines
Outcomes
Competition Results
Artemis images copyright Gary Redman, Red Man Designs
Team Composition
- Multidisciplinary, multi-national, multi-university
- Four students, three schools, three countries
- Wildly different backgrounds: engineering, industrial design, business
- Collaboration done entirely online
Project Guidelines
- Supersonic business-class transport
- ‘Sensibly supersonic’ - make a compelling economic case for design, incorporating real-world fiscal and logistical constraints
Outcomes
- 70-passenger, dual-class cabin
- 30% estimated gross profitability
- Reduced boom signature: 34 PLdB
- 4,400 nmi range; Mach 1.6 cruise
- Customer- and operations-centric design approach
Competition Results
- 2nd place; ~140 entries
- Internship: NASA LaRC
Artemis images copyright Gary Redman, Red Man Designs