Round 13 SpaceMasters (left to right) Antonella Caldarelli, Felix Hessinger, Florian Reiner, Samuel Ocaña Losada and Gabriel Jörg Schwarzkopf from the “Red Eagle” Contest winning team.

16 October 2025

Winners of 2018 Red Eagle Mars Lander Competition

A 10-member team of Round 13 SpaceMasters won the Mars Society’s 2018 “Red Eagle” International Student Engineering Contest to design a lander capable of delivering a 10 tonne payload to the Martian surface.

The SpaceMaster team, including Antonella Caldarelli, Arvind Vairavan, Bhardwaj Shastri, Felix Hessinger, Florian Reineram, Gabriel Jörg Schwarzkopf, Kartik Naik, Samuel Ocaña Losada, Shashikant Gupta and Sri Harsha Pavuluri, was selected from 5 finalists and awarded $10,000 USD for 1st place.

Published: 16 October 2025

Updated: 28 August 2025

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It is with pride we congratulate Arctic Space Technologies, a company founded partly by our alumni from the programmes at the Kiruna Space Campus. We hope to that they continue to thrive and inspire future students Luleå University of Technology.

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