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The only team in Spain entering the Google competition for sending satellite images to the Earth
UPC-Barcelona Tech students try to send a spherical robot to the Moon
A group of students at the EPSC, led by professor Joshua Tristancho, is designing a ball-shaped mini-robot named PicoRover and planning to send it to the Moon, hoping to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE.
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href="https://saladepremsa2.upc.edu/en"">Department of Applied Mathematics IV. Contacts have also been made to get other Spanish universities involved in the project.
Many of the breakthroughs generated by this competition are expected to be used as prototypes or solutions that will then be transferred not only to major corporations but to the aerospace industry in general.
The FREDNET project sponsors are Elphel Inc, Hurricane Electric Internet Services, and US entrepreneur David Masten.
The team's main channel for communication is a web portal where participants can contribute their ideas and assess the different proposals and initiatives.
A Google competitionThe Google Lunar X PRIZE will be awarding $20 million to the first team to land a robot on the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images back to the Earth in real time. Google will award an extra $5 million to the team that also films and sends images of the sites of previous lunar missions.
The moon landing deadline for the competition is December 31, 2014, but there are plans to use a commercial launcher to which PicoRover would be delivered roughly during 2012, since the launcher needs almost two years to integrate the robot into its vehicle.
Open Source and technology transfer for the aerospace industry
FREDNET's entry in the competition is also unique in terms of its philosophy, which is based on sharing knowledge so that everyone can participate in the project. The team is led by US programmer Fred J. Bourgeois, and its goal is to bring together the efforts of professionals in science, engineering and technology from all around the world. Many of the breakthroughs generated by this competition are expected to be used as prototypes or solutions that will then be transferred not only to major corporations but to the aerospace industry in general.
The FREDNET project sponsors are Elphel Inc, Hurricane Electric Internet Services, and US entrepreneur David Masten.
The team's main channel for communication is a web portal where participants can contribute their ideas and assess the different proposals and initiatives.
A Google competition
The moon landing deadline for the competition is December 31, 2014, but there are plans to use a commercial launcher to which PicoRover would be delivered roughly during 2012, since the launcher needs almost two years to integrate the robot into its vehicle.
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