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Shengtao Ma Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Endeavor Space Exploration Vehicle in Futuristic Design
The international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Shengtao Ma for futuristic design
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COMO, Italy, April 27, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Endeavor Space Exploration Vehicle by Shengtao Ma, designed for Different Design Companies, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Futuristic Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Endeavor Space Exploration Vehicle
Modular and detachable vehicles have become an effective solution to address the extreme environments of space, such as vacuum and radiation, as well as the diverse needs of exploration missions. Through modular design, different functional modules can be flexibly configured to adapt to various scientific research requirements; and through advanced survival support systems, the safety and comfort of astronauts during long-duration missions are ensured.
About Shengtao Ma
Ma Shengtao is a young product designer studying at Qingdao University of technology in China. He has done research in product design and computer illustration, and has done many designs for schools, local shopping centers and associations. His product design projects and illustrations have also won national competition awards in relevant aspects for many times, and he hopes to continue his efforts and development on the road of product design in the future.
Award Record
Shengtao Ma is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2025 - 2026 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Futuristic Design Award
The A' Futuristic Design Award is an international futuristic design competition recognizing cutting-edge futuristic design concepts from designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to futuristic designers, futuristic brands, futuristic architects and concept product designers from all countries. Entries typically include conceptual architectures, advanced robotics, innovative transportation systems, futuristic fashion designs, progressive furniture pieces and next-gen electronic gadgets. Awarded futuristic designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/futuristic
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/181475
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/181475
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!181475
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/295812
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Endeavor Space Exploration Vehicle
- Function
- Space Exploration Vehicle
- Category
- Futuristic Design
- Discipline
- Design Strategy
- Industry
- Innovation and Design Industry
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Black, Light Slate Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Different Design Companies
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shengtao Ma
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #181475
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The modular space engineering vehicle is designed to improve the efficiency and safety of extraterrestrial scientific expeditions. Its modular design allows for flexible configuration of different functional modules to adapt to diverse scientific research needs; and its advanced survival support system ensures the safety and comfort of astronauts during long-duration missions.
- Inspiration
- As lunar, Mars, and asteroid exploration missions deepen, traditional single-use spacecraft are costly, time-consuming, and poorly adaptable, making them unsuitable for meeting the diverse needs of resource exploration and exploitation. Intensified commercial competition in the Earth-Moon space sector necessitates a scalable and reconfigurable universal platform. Modular space resource exploration vehicles have emerged to address this need.
- Research
- This product uses standardized interfaces to quickly combine units such as movement, drilling, analysis, and power supply, enabling multi-functional vehicles, on-orbit maintenance and upgrades, significantly reducing mission costs and risks, and supporting the sustainable development and utilization of future space resources.
- Challenge
- During the product design process, many problems arose in the assembly of the various modular devices. Finally, through exploration, a unified and standardized rapid assembly solution was completed.
- Realization and Technology
- This product uses silicon carbide fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composite material and near-net-shape forming through additive manufacturing to achieve high temperature resistance and lightweight. Each functional module can be rapidly reconfigured via electromagnetic locking and thermal control interfaces. Key load-bearing components undergo electron beam welding and vacuum heat treatment to meet extreme environmental requirements.
- Operation and Interaction
- Each module can be quickly assembled and disassembled through standardized interfaces. The navigator vehicle is responsible for path planning and environmental detection, while the resource vehicle is responsible for material transportation and equipment deployment. This not only meets the needs of deep space exploration and space station resupply, but also reduces the risk of single-module failure through separate execution, providing a flexible platform for sustainable space exploration.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was launched in Qingdao, China in January 2024 and concluded in Qingdao, China in December 2025.
- Specifications
- Width 4200mm x Length 1200mm x Height 4600mm
- Keywords
- Safety, Technology, Modular, Intelligent, Resource exploration, new energy, space exploration
