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
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When I called Citron Research’s Andrew Left on Tuesday afternoon, I thought I had the wrong number.
He’s been using a fake voice when he picks up calls these days because he says members of Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum have been calling him nonstop. They’ve set up a fake Tinder profile for the short seller, shown up at his guardhouse, and hacked Citron’s Twitter account, all over a GameStop call he made on Twitter on January 19, he told me.
“They’re harassing me however they can,” Left said. “This hasn’t happened before.”
Left has long been in the business of controversy, having published market commentary for 17 years that frequently accuses companies of fraud. And he’s been right before: according to Citron’s website, 50 companies covered by the company have been targets of regulatory intervention since 2001.