Post by Ginnie on Aug 22, 2007 19:42:24 GMT -4
Any on you energetic-techie-builder types up for a challenge?
This is a contest for building a device that will scoop dust on the moon for the purpose of extracting the oxygen in it:
from the California Space Agency website:
www.californiaspaceauthority.org/regolith/
Teams competing in the Regolith Excavation Challenge will build autonomously operating systems to excavate lunar regolith and deliver it to a collector. This Challenge will be conducted in a "head-to-head" competition format. Teams will be challenged to excavate and deliver as much regolith as possible in 30 minutes.
* Each team's excavation system must be fully autonomous
* Systems will perform in a square sandbox filled with compressed lunar regolith simulant.
* Mass of the system cannot exceed 40 kilograms.
* 30 Watts of DC power will be provided to the system.
* Each system will have 30 minutes to excavate as much regolith as possible and deliver it to a fixed collector adjacent to the sandbox.
* The total purse of $250,000 will go to the winning teams excavating the most regolith above 150 kilograms.
This is a contest for building a device that will scoop dust on the moon for the purpose of extracting the oxygen in it:
from the California Space Agency website:
www.californiaspaceauthority.org/regolith/
Teams competing in the Regolith Excavation Challenge will build autonomously operating systems to excavate lunar regolith and deliver it to a collector. This Challenge will be conducted in a "head-to-head" competition format. Teams will be challenged to excavate and deliver as much regolith as possible in 30 minutes.
* Each team's excavation system must be fully autonomous
* Systems will perform in a square sandbox filled with compressed lunar regolith simulant.
* Mass of the system cannot exceed 40 kilograms.
* 30 Watts of DC power will be provided to the system.
* Each system will have 30 minutes to excavate as much regolith as possible and deliver it to a fixed collector adjacent to the sandbox.
* The total purse of $250,000 will go to the winning teams excavating the most regolith above 150 kilograms.