SAVER: Body and Payload
The Surface Autonomous Vehicle for Emergency Response (SAVER) is one of a variety of competitions held by NASA Micro-G Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-G NExT). The purpose of SAVER is to locate and bring survival supplies to astronauts in the case of a maritime event (i.e. splash down after mission or an abort during launch). Our team focused on the body and payload portions of the vehicle, while our Navigation and Control team focused on the autonomous navigation aspect of the design.