Stone Aerospace (principal investigator; vehicle design; system integration; low level control and sensing software; intra-processor networking; onboard navigation; Li-Ion power sub-systems, propulsion and thruster controller sub-system; imaging and obstacle-avoidance sonar sub-systems; variable buoyancy engine; environmental sensing sub-system, structural framing; syntactic design; testing and evaluation; project management)

Carnegie-Mellon University Field Robotics Center (system executive and SLAM software)

Southwest Research Institute (science payload design, fabrication, and test; science payload software)

University of Colorado Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines (microbiology program lead; onboard micro-organism archetype library definition; field sample DNA sequencing)

University of Texas at Austin (Cenote Zacaton field logistics; Mexican government permits; Mexican landowner relations; hydrogeology instrument payload support).

University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Institute (science payload and vehicle design programmatic and technical review; strategic program guidance for path-to-mission planning).

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