ALCHEMIST is a payload design created in order to produce water from lunar regolith so as to demonstrate the end-to-end process of hydrogen reduction of FeO on the lunar surface.

In this activity, an initial trade-space exploration took place to explicitly analyse the mission design trade-space provided by the customer and the baseline mission design to validate or replace it, as well as to indicate how the associated challenges it contains and identifies are addressed and reflected in the ALCHEMIST design. As a result, the team obtained a first iteration of a Payload Description Document, and a Payload Interface Definition.