Regolith Challenge

Regolith_Chal: @spaceshow has posted the archive of an interview with Jim Greenhaw team leader of Tech Ranch at http://tinyurl.com/572bnu

Regolith_Chal: @glxp Curling (http://tinyurl.com/brh9v) in a dark crater would be really interesting. Table tennis would also be exciting.

Regolith_Chal: Very happy with the demonstrations, hopping to continue this next year.

Regolith_Chal: Toy Garden got 7.10 Kg with about 4 or 5 swipes of the bucket.

Regolith_Chal: CSM NERDS dumping into the collector now.

Regolith_Chal: Cal Poly team excavated about 103 Kg during their manually operated demonstration run.

Regolith_Chal: Cal Poly team is moving lots of regolith under manual control.

Regolith_Chal: Toy Garden just wrapping up their demonstration run.

Regolith_Chal: Full Scale Robotics is in the sandbox for a demonstration run.

Regolith_Chal: Thanks to all who attended the competition attempts today.

Regolith_Chal: as stated by @nasaprize and @doug_comstock, no prize winners today, but the demos will continue tomorrow morning.

Regolith_Chal: Just wrapping up the pre competition judges meeting. All ready for an early start tomorrow.

Regolith_Chal: Compaction measurements coming out within spec.

Regolith_Chal: @tim846, there isn't an official live feed, but rumor has it there is a web cam link floating around.

Regolith_Chal: Looks like our tent is just about ready. It is clear on one side, all the better for excavator viewing.

Regolith_Chal: Just done buttoning up the sandbox. One of our judges, Rob Mueller stopped by earlier to check in.

Regolith_Chal: Today, we set up the sandbox. It will have 8 tons of JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant, and is 4m x 4m x 0.5m.

Regolith_Chal: Received word today that NASA personnel will be attending the Regolith Challenge from Ames, Dryden, Glenn, HQ, JPL, Johnson, and Kennedy.

Regolith_Chal: Finalizing some plans with one of the crews that will be filming at the event. Saturday will be quite busy!

Regolith_Chal: Answering some last minute questions from teams. To quote a co-host, having the jitters is a good thing; their absence would be a bad sign.