[SpaceProgram] Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge

[Dakota Nelson]

Stevens High School (In Rapid City, SD) is local to me, and I think we may
be able to get something going there. I can think of a faculty member there
who would probably be interested. Thoughts?

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:00 PM, cole santos <cksantos85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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)."
>>
>>  Jerry Isdale
>> isdale at gmail.com
>> USA Director, SpaceGAMBIT
>> Global Alliance of Makers Building Interstellar Technology
>> http://SpaceGAMBIT.org
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