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April 22, 2013 - by Tyrobot

Overall Goal

This week, one of our team members presented his latest research results in a conference in Warsaw, Poland.

Below two pictures of this.

The medieval castle where the conference took place:

The author and his poster presentation:

4th international workshop on verification and testing of space systems will held in Turin (Italy) the 21-22-23th May 2013. The workshop is organized by Politecnico di Torino and Thales Alenia Space and sponsored by some of the main space agencies of the word (ASI, CSA, ESA, JAXA, NASA) in collaboration with the Italian Secretariat General of Defence / National Armaments Directorate, AIDAA and Piedmont Aerospace District.

April 19, 2013 - by Firefleye Software

The first main task the software team had to tackle was to get a good image fusion method. We explored four different methods of image fusion.

1. Image Analysis
1.1 High Dynamic Range (HDR)

Thanks Vera!
This is sample ugly animation of two years ago.

The Earth In the central point, the moon is the ellipse.

Sandy Heffetz-Millard, a volunteer engineer in our engineering team, represented us at a NASA conference about space components in the "2013 SEE Symposium and MAPLD Combined" conference in San Diego. The participants learned about space radiation and how it affects space electronics. In addition, we presented the challenges in building a video system in accordance with the Google Lunar X-prize competition rules.

Going to space is risky. Already in the early phase of the development, still on Earth, many things can go wrong - and they go some time wrong, as all of us know this. But the possible consequences can be much more serious in space.

As it happened to Apollo 13, on its way to the Moon: "Houston, we've got a problem" - It is now history; today 43 years ago Apollo 13 splashed down succesfully with Jim Lovell, Frad Haise and "Jack" Swigert on board, after a really dramatic flight. Look back at this phantastic story here:

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