11/25/2023 0 Comments Nasa lunar rover![]() “Student teams….will develop innovative and cost-effective robots that go beyond wheeled rovers capable of exploring other worlds.” “Traditional wheeled rovers cannot reach many of the unexplored areas of the moon and Mars,” organizers wrote in announcing the challenge last fall. Teams have several months to generate ideas and plans before submitting a formal written proposal and a short video in mid-January.įor the 2022 challenge, participants were asked to develop new modalities for rovers to use in navigating the more challenging terrains on the moon, and potentially beyond. The challenge invites teams to initially create and submit concepts and proposals at the end of September. Students propose, design, develop, and demonstrate their technology in a project-based program over the course of a year and a half. Now in its seventh year, this university-level competition invites students to tackle some of the most critical needs facing space exploration. Nosel learned about the annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing, or BIG, Idea Challenge during her first NASA internship in 2019. And I just wanted to open it up to new people.” “And then I applied for my first thing, and it just snowballed into more and more and more and more programs with them. “I was encouraged by one of my friends to apply for my first program, and it took a lot of encouragement, because you think of NASA as the most brilliant minds, and I was like, ‘That’s not something I could do,’” she says. Nosel, who has completed multiple internships at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Ohio and the NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, approached her senior year looking for a way to share her NASA experience with other UConn students. Their work is being supported by $150,000 in project funding from NASA.Ī chemical engineering and material sciences and engineering major, Theresa Nosel ’22 (ENG) is the UConn team’s leader. They’re spending the rest of this semester, the summer, and into the fall designing and building their prototype for a lunar rover, then testing its ability to navigate extreme terrain and harsh conditions similar to the moon’s south pole. ![]() Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.Īn interdisciplinary team of UConn undergraduate students took a bigtime shot at the moon last semester, but it landed them right where they aimed – as finalists in the 2022 NASA BIG Idea Challenge. As the oft-quoted saying goes, shoot for the moon. ![]()
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