NASA Lunabotics · 2026
Born to win.
Built to prove it.
We are an ambitious, interdisciplinary team of students across engineering, design, and business, united by a shared passion for advancing space technology.
Mission Active
Our Mission
CMU MoonMiners seeks to set the standard for student-led large industry-like builds in space. We build ready systems with marginal risk on an extremely aggressive timeline, laying the groundwork for a landing rover robotic program at Carnegie Mellon.
Building a fully autonomous lunar rover
CMU Moon Miners
Setting the standard for student-led lunar robotics, building marginal-risk ready systems on an aggressive timeline.
76 members
An interdisciplinary team across engineering, business, computer science and more
The first
autonomous rover
in the NASA Lunabotics competition
Operational Milestones
2026-2027 milestones
Moon Miners founded
Sep 2025
Lunabotics 2026 Competition
May 2026
Preliminary Design Review
Nov 2026
Announcement of Selection for Lunabotics 2027
Dec 2026
Critical Design Review
Dec 2026
The Challenge
May 2027 · Kennedy Space Center
Recent Highlights
Accepted into 2026 NASA Lunabotics Challenge
CMU Moon Miners has been officially accepted into the 2026 NASA Lunabotics Challenge—one of only 50 teams selected from 73 applicants worldwide.
Critical Design Review
Completed our Critical Design Review, presenting integrated mechanical, electrical, and software designs for the rover.
Preliminary Design Review
Successfully completed our PDR, showcasing our autonomous excavation system design and dust mitigation strategies.