HANCOCK As a line of families along Quincy Street watched and took photos, Santa Claus pulled up in his sleigh or rather, on the back of a Hancock fire
HANCOCK As a line of families along Quincy Street watched and took photos, Santa Claus pulled up in his sleigh or rather, on the back of a Hancock fire
Michigan Tech students took home top honors the Artemis Award in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.
Students from Michigan Technological University want to shine a light on the darkest places of the moon. Their design, a rover called Tethered permanently shadowed Region EXplorer (T-REX), deploys a lightweight, superconducting cable to keep other lunar rovers powered and provide wireless communication as they operate in the extreme environments of the moon’s frigid, lightless craters.
Eight university teams competed in the BIG Idea Challenge for 2020, called the Lunar PSR Challenge. The goal? Demonstrating different technologies and designs to study and explore the moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), which
Michigan Tech robotics team continues with lunar rover
News Highlights: Michigan Tech robotics team continues with lunar rover
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) – After winning NASA’s Big Idea Challenge, Michigan Tech’s space robotics team plans to continue its work on the “T-REX” robot.
Paul van Susante, assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department, said the entire competition was held at a distance. That means schools across the country were able to compete from their own labs for the year-long competition.
“The T-REX robot was designed, built and tested in this space,” says van Susante. “The planetary surface Technology Lab in Michigan Tech. He explained that the school received approximately $ 160,000 to fund the research and development.