{"id":8055,"date":"2014-06-08T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8055"},"modified":"2014-06-08T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:11:58","slug":"polish-team-wins-mars-society-rover-challenge-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8055","title":{"rendered":"Polish team wins Mars Society Rover Challenge for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Kevin Sloan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Society<\/a> talked last Friday about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/urc.marssociety.org\/home\" target=\"_d\">2014 University Rover Challenge<\/a>\u00a0held at the end of May with 21 teams competing:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thespaceshow.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/07\/kevin-sloan-friday-6-6-14\/\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/thespaceshow.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/07\/kevin-sloan-friday-6-6-14\/\">Kevin Sloan, Friday, 6-6-14 &#8211;\u00a0<span data-scaytid=\"2\" data-scayt_word=\"Thespaceshow's\">Thespaceshow&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8055-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/archived.thespaceshow.com\/shows\/2257-BWB-2014-06-06.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/archived.thespaceshow.com\/shows\/2257-BWB-2014-06-06.mp3\">http:\/\/archived.thespaceshow.com\/shows\/2257-BWB-2014-06-06.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">More about the event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrowatch.net\/2014\/06\/polish-teams-once-again-dominate-at.html\" target=\"_d\">Polish Teams Once Again Dominate at the University Rover Challenge &#8211; Astronomy and Space News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/home\/press\/announcements\/universityroverchallengeurccrownsitsfirstback-to-backchampion\" target=\"_d\">University Rover Challenge (URC) Crowns Its First Back-to-Back Champion &#8211; The Mars Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A group picture of all the teams at the Mars Society&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mdrs.marssociety.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Mars Desert Research Station<\/a>\u00a0in Utah where the competition took place:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/home\/press\/announcements\/universityroverchallengeurccrownsitsfirstback-to-backchampion\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8056\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=8056\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/URC-2014-Final-group-photo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,435\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"URC 2014 Final group photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/URC-2014-Final-group-photo.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8056\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/URC-2014-Final-group-photo.jpg\" alt=\"URC 2014 Final group photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/URC-2014-Final-group-photo.jpg 960w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/URC-2014-Final-group-photo-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Mars Society post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">From\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #dd8d00 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/urc.marssociety.org\/home\/team-info\" target=\"_blank\">an initial field of 31<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">, 23 rovers\u00a0from six countries descended upon the Mars Society\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #dd8d00 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/mdrs.marssociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Desert Research Station<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0(MDRS) in remote southern Utah for the 2014\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #dd8d00 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/urc.marssociety.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\">University Rover Challenge<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">(URC).\u00a0Over the course of a grueling three day competition, student teams and their robotic creations had to\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #dd8d00 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/urc.marssociety.org\/home\/about-urc\/urc2014-scores\" target=\"_blank\">complete a series of complex tasks<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0in a Mars-like setting, providing a glimpse at the technology that could one day support future astronauts on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Team Hyperion from the Bialystok University of Technology (Poland) walked away with the top spot, earning a total of 368 points (out of 500 possible). The\u00a0victory was the second consecutive for the Hyperion team. Their rover impressed\u00a0judges and left the competition behind, in large part due to its overall reliability which scored high marks in each event.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars Rover Design Team from the Missouri University of Science &amp; Technology (USA) took second place with 342 points, while the Legendary Rover Team from Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland) finished close behind in third place with 338 points.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">The BYU Mars Rover Team from Brigham Young University (USA) came in fourth place and also received the first ever Judges\u2019 Award for the Most Innovative Design. This was awarded in recognition of the team\u2019s novel suspension system that utilized custom Kevlar suspension springs.<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u201cEach of the teams on the podium demonstrated remarkable ingenuity, skill and teamwork,\u201d said Kevin Sloan, Director of URC.\u00a0\u201cTheir passion for their work was evident in their rovers and was emblematic of the passion all of the teams had on display this year.\u201d<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">URC is the world\u2019s premier robotics competition for college students, placing them in a stunning and expansive setting faced with myriad challenges that span multiple fields of study.\u00a0URC is hosted by the Mars Society, the world\u2019s largest space advocacy group dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the Red Planet, and is sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) and the Louis L. Stott Foundation.<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #444444;\" \/><span style=\"color: #444444;\">URC 2014 had the largest field of student teams of any previous competition, more than doubling last year\u2019s record of ten teams. Through eight years of the event, URC has engaged 100 teams and more than 1,000 students from across the globe. URC was founded on the principle of challenging ambitious students with ambitious goals and providing\u00a0students with a world class project experience in a unique environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Sloan of the Mars Society talked last Friday about the\u00a02014 University Rover Challenge\u00a0held at the end of May with 21 teams competing:\u00a0Kevin Sloan, Friday, 6-6-14 &#8211;\u00a0Thespaceshow&#8217;s\u00a0Blog http:\/\/archived.thespaceshow.com\/shows\/2257-BWB-2014-06-06.mp3 More about the event: Polish Teams Once Again Dominate at the University Rover Challenge &#8211; Astronomy and Space News University Rover Challenge (URC) Crowns Its First Back-to-Back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polish team wins Mars Society Rover Challenge for second time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,16,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-contests-and-games","category-mars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-25V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6562,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6562","url_meta":{"origin":8055,"position":0},"title":"31 student teams to compete in Mars Society&#8217;s University Rover Challenge","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mars Society gets a good response to their\u00a0University Rover Challenge\u00a0contest: URC Registration Sets New Record with 31 Student Teams Set to Compete The Mars Society is pleased to announce that\u00a031 student teams from six countries and four continents\u00a0have officially registered for the 2014\u00a0University Rover Challenge\u00a0(URC), setting a new participation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/urc.marssociety.org\/_\/rsrc\/1294657025464\/home\/banner_images_urc.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7751,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7751","url_meta":{"origin":8055,"position":1},"title":"European Rover Challenge 2014: 24 teams to compete in Poland, Sept 5-7","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from the\u00a0European Rover Challenge: Mars rovers will invade Poland The registration period for the European Rover Challenge 2014 is over \u2013 24 teams, from all over the world, have applied to step up to the Challenge. 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