Last week, several PicoRover prototypes were tested in a sandbox in order to study their characteristics on steep slopes. The difference between the prototypes for this experiment was the outer surface of the shield:
1. PicoRover with blank surface
2. PicoRover with spikes
3. The recently introduced PicoRover with long hair (or mustache?) instead of spikes.
December 15, 2009 - by Fun with a Chinese Satellite
Lets have some fun with a Chinese satellite!
December 14, 2009 - by More on the HTC Magic in the PicoRover
In case you were a little confused over why we put a HTC Magic phone in a PicoRover shield, here is some more info...
The HTC Magic is running the Wikisat Balloon Recovery System, which in the current version records GPS data and also sends it via SMS when it is below a certain altitude. The HTC Magic is based on the Android operating system, which provides us with an open and easily accessible platform for hacking the phone.
December 14, 2009 - by Painting contest
ARCA organized on December 12, at George Tarnea primary school, a painting workshop on "First romanian rocket in space", addressed to the students of I-IV classes.
December 13, 2009 - by Water on the Moon and the GLXP
By Mark Bentley - White Label Space Team Scientist
December 12, 2009 - by Camera system, weather ballons & space microscope
Just back from a very productive meeting in Nanjing. Here you can see the designing engineer testing our GPS tracking and camera system, which will be mounted on a new model helicopter for further tests and later on a weather ballon. Why I am saying new model helicopter? Well, unfortunately the old model helicopter had a bad crash yesterday and is out of order.
The next picture shows Prof. Peng, sitting on the breadboard construction of a automatic weather ballon launch monitoring system (filling gas H2):
The next picture shows Prof. Peng, sitting on the breadboard construction of a automatic weather ballon launch monitoring system (filling gas H2):
December 10, 2009 - by PTS at the Eurospaceward now let's go for the CCC
On December 6th,
we had the opportunity to present both the GoogleLunarX-Prize and our team at this years Eurospaceward conference.
Many thanks to William Pomerantz for allowing us to step in for him in on the GLXP intro presentation.
December 10, 2009 - by Community Innovation as Open Business Model
Open Moon Managing Consultant Patrick Sbrzesny gave a lecture on Community Innovation as an Open Business Model to the Federal Association of German Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. His simple question was:
“Can communities that create the biggest encyclopedia in history also fly to the moon?”
Have a look onto his slideshow.
“Can communities that create the biggest encyclopedia in history also fly to the moon?”
Have a look onto his slideshow.
December 10, 2009 - by Funding Breakthrough
Micro-Space SBIR proposal, “Automatic Solar and Celestial Navigation on the Moon and Mars”, has been selected by NASA for Phase I funding. This proposal taps Micro-Space's long history of high resolution image processing and capture, used for example in our DOD automated inspection systems for aircraft HUD and HMD displays and in machine vision systems. The very low mass system proposed can also be adapted for use as a “Star Camera” in CubeSats and NanoSpacecraft including to guide planetary approach for aerobraking and atmospheric entry.
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