Construction of boulder mass properties tool for Asteroid Retrieval and establishing and populating a digital asset management tool for archiving the Space Mission Analysis Branch Advanced Concepts Lab data products.  Work will be done both at AMA company offices and at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA

Successful applicant will engage in two primary activities:
1)  Construction of boulder mass properties tool for Asteroid Retrieval: develop in Matlab a mass properties estimation tool that uses irregular object shape, density distribution, and random void percentage to estimate total mass and moments of inertia.  Tool will provide probability cloud of mass properties, total mass, and center of mass location using Monte Carlo or similar analysis.
2) Establish and populate a digital asset management tool for archiving the Space Mission Analysis Branch (SMAB) Advanced Concepts Lab data products. SMAB plans on investing in a COTS tool for asset management.  Intern will assist in implementing the system that meets user needs and then in populating the system with archived data.  Responsibility will include training other interns for assistance in populating the database.