[SpaceProgram] Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

[cole santos]

We need to find a highschool partner on this one. KingK? Seabury, or maybe
a combo of a few.

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just heard about this competition is open to High School students in USA
> and EU (separate tournaments).
> Basically they are asking teams to program a sat that will match
> orbit+spin and dock with a tumbling bot.
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> http://www.zerorobotics.org/web/zero-robotics/tournament-details?tournamentId=6
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> "The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA
> and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora
> Flight Sciences, is a programming tournament that opens the SPHERES
> satellite research platform to the general public for the first time. The
> goal of the tournament will be to develop an algorithm related to the
> recently announced DARPA Phoenix demonstration. The objective of this
> specific challenge is to write a computer program to control a satellite
> (called a “Tender”) to enable it to dock with a space object (or POD) that
> may be tumbling through space. The best algorithm submissions from
> simulation competitions will be tested in zero gravity on real SPHERES
> satellites aboard the International Space Station (ISS)."
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> Jerry Isdale
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> USA Director, SpaceGAMBIT
> Global Alliance of Makers Building Interstellar Technology
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