The European Space Agency and MIT is setting up a tournament where students can earn spot by verify the movement of volleyball - sized celestial sphere place inside the International Space Station .
TheSPHERES(Synchronized Position Hold , Engage , Reorient , Experimental Satellites ) can move around the ISS using 12 jets powered by compressed gas . Each of them have their own power , propulsion , and navigation . But for make them move in the exact way need , students will have to pre - program each of them with the direction required to meet a specific destination .
Secondary - schooling pupil can prepare for theZero Robotics Competitionby test their codes in online computer simulation . The in effect algorithmic rule will propel the competitor to the final examination , when they ’ll get to see the sphere run their program line know from quad . Each competitor will be put into a three - squad alinement from different European countries .
readjustment for U.S. high-pitched school day students can be foundhere .
The final event will take stead in January 2014 with the U.S. team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) and the European teams at ESA ’s ESTEC Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk , the Netherlands .
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