Science at Asclepios
Asclepios serves a scientific testbed for projects proposed by our academic and industrial partners. We aim to provide an operationally realistic simulation in which various projects can test their experiments.
Areas of Research
Environment & Physics
Life Sciences & Medicine
Robotics & Lunar Operations
Space Habitat Engineering
Asclepios works with research groups, companies, students, and start-ups that have products or projects to test within our lunar analogue mission. Projects can be tested in several different regimes: our lunar simulation mission, our zero-gravity flights, our extreme environment training, and our Mission Control Centre. Some examples of past projects are:
- Rovers and robots controlled by analogue astronauts on EVAs
- Novel air filtering technologies
- Growing plants in regolith soil within the space habitat
- Astronaut sleep tracking
- Teleoperating rovers from within the space base
- Testing new ultrasound technology for remote applications
- Water filtration technologies
- Astronomy observation with astronauts on EVA
Asclepios issues a Call for Projects each autumn to gather proposals. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for Asclepios VI, please fill out the application.
APPLICATIONS CURRENTLY OPEN – DEADLINE 12TH JANUARY 2026
Semester Projects
Picture credit: Ilyasse Taame
As an EPFL association, Asclepios offers EPFL students the opportunity to conduct their semester project with our project. Semester projects are conducted in conjunction with an EPFL supervisor and directly benefit our mission. If you are interested, you can download our Semester Projects brochure.
Previous Research
Asclepios V
HUMANISE: Robotic Teleoperation Across Three Analogue Missions
Katherine Mulry, Maneesh Kumar Verma, Elena López-Contreras, Somaya Bennani, Raphaëlle N. Roy, Vsevolod Peysakhovich
Implementing Crew Rotations in a Lunar Analog Mission
Katherine Mulry, Arsham Karapetyan, Michelle Pahud, Riccardo Di Bari, Davide Scalettari
HAPTILE – Haptic Assisted Performance for Tactile Interaction in Lunar EVAs
Abir Belkhair, Carole-Anne Vollette, Katherine Mulry, Ambre Bexter, Josu Egea-Carro, Rishabh Akula, Avin Mohebi, Maria Redondo, Kimia Kharazi
AstroStrength: Development and Implementation of a Three-Stage Program for the Physical Pre-Mission Preparation of Analogue Astronauts during Asclepios Mission V
Anna Zimmermann, Paul Iliffe, Katherine Mulry, Davide Scalettari, Vivien Simon, Max Grossman, Susana Alves, Kaya Weissert, Martina Zampieri Serafini, Ella Ganzer, Autumn Wong
Simulation-Based Medical Emergency Training for Deep-Space Missions
Susana Alves, Mariana Peyroteo, Joana Figueira Godinho, Joao Lousada, Goncalo Torrinha, Luıs Lapao
Asclepios IV
Human-Machine Interaction for Rover Teleoperation During Lunar Analogue
Katherine Mulry, André F D Santos, Elena López-Contreras, Raphaëlle N. Roy, Maneesh Kumar Verma, Vsevolod Peysakhovich, Lucie Ráčková
Plant Based Water Filtering: Towards Regenerative Water Processing Systems
Antonin Lecomte, Sungyoon Joseph Hong, Rebecca Blum, Evandros Theodosiou, Katherine Mulry, Guillaume Truong–Allié
Frontiers of Medicine: Asclepios Project Insights
Joana Figueira Godinho, AG Ferreira Exposto Rodriguez Lopez, Daniel Cowen, Daniel Bister, Khalid Azalmad, Stavroula Chaloulakou, Joanna Estampe Tracana, Evandros Theodosiou
Asclepios III
Expanding the Horizons of Interventional Radiology: Training Analog Astronauts for Percutaneous Drainage in Preparation for Deep Space Exploration
Julien Frandon, Jérôme Soussan, Vincent Vidal, Theodor Nikolov, Baptiste Rubino, Alain Luciani, Alexis Paillet, Laure Boyer
Asclepios Mission III: Third Iteration Of The Student-Led Analog Mission Simulating A Human Expedition To The Lunar South Pole
Evandros Theodosiou, Elena López-Contreras, Katherine Mulry, Julia Jakiela, Jessica Kehala Studer, Andreia Oliveira, Anne-Hermine Allain, Veronica Orlandi, Loïc Lerville-Rouyer, Stavroula Chaloulakou, Diego Gonzalez
From Abstract to Mission: selecting and implementing external Projects into the simulated lunar mission conditions of Asclepios III
Arnault Monoyer, Evandros Theodosiou, Léonie Gasteiner, Florence Crozat, Julia Jakiela, Katherine Mulry, Palak Patel, Clara Nogué i Ansón, Madelyn Hoying, Loïc Lerville-Rouyer, Elena López-Contreras González
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MEEVA: a smart system to estimate and mitigate stress effects during analogue astronauts EVAs.
Davide Scalettari, Lucie Ráčková, Gonçalo Oliveira Pinho, Maddalena Lovotti, Elisabetta Marrucci, Giuseppe De Luca, Fabio Piazza, Maneesh Kumar Verma, Ludovico Bernasconi, Andrea Sportillo, Luca De Angeli, Fiammetta Lair
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Asclepios II
Crew mental state monitoring in an extreme environment using functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Jessica Kehala Studer, Laure Boyer, Vsevolod Peysakhovich, Mickaël Causse, Alexis Paillet
Asclepios II: Second Iteration Of The Student-Led Analog Mission Simulating A Human Expedition To The Lunar South Pole
Veronica Orlandi, Somaya Bennani, Loïc Lerville-Rouyer, Ilaria Merli, Chiara Armandi, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Nicolás Ortega, Simon Kälin, Mathieu Beller, Arnault Monoyer, Tatiana López, Jessica Kehala Studer, Jean-Paul Kneib
LEXICON: a lunar dust mitigation system for ISRU activities as an experiment for the Asclepios II analog mission
Andrea Sportillo, Edoardo Foiadelli, Giuseppe De Luca, Niccolò Bruno, Lorenzo Voltini, Michela Ferri, Francesca Claudia Sala, Giuliano Mazza, Davide Scalettari, Francesco Ventre, Swarnajyoti Mukherjee