Tokyo space enthusiasts remotely control Adelaide rovers
Young Japanese space enthusiasts will take part in a space rover experience at the 成人大片, without ever stepping on a plane.
On Saturday 25 March, students will drive rovers remotely from the TeNQ Space Museum in Tokyo, almost 8,000km from the University鈥檚 North Terrace campus.
The rovers will be in the University鈥檚 state-of-the-art , which is specifically designed to simulate an off-Earth environment that provides researchers and industry with the opportunity to co-design, test and develop technologies and processes.
The students will practice basic navigation tasks, following a lunar road around the pit using the rovers on the unique surface and complete 鈥渕issions鈥.
The cameras mounted on the rovers will feed live pictures of the Exterres Lab and rover pit to the participants and spectators in the Tokyo Dome.
Associate Professor John Culton, Director of the 成人大片's Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR), said it is important to educate the next generation of young space enthusiasts.
鈥淥pportunities like this show young people what is possible and hopefully inspire them to consider what a career in space might look like,鈥 Associate Professor Culton said.
鈥淪pace engineers of the future are now able to gain hands-on experience of driving rovers while at school and university. Previously these skills could only be attained via specialised courses that were only available to a few people.
鈥淪pace research started as a country-based challenge but today it is a globally connected effort that the 成人大片 is proud to be part of.
鈥淲e are undertaking work that is done in very few places in the world. The ATCSR is a focal point to help our researchers reach out into the international space community.鈥
成人大片 researchers play an important role in the global space community and will be supporting NASA鈥檚 Artemis Program by using it鈥檚 globally unique off-Earth simulation facilities in support of critical research being carried out by international industry and research partners.
鈥淪pace engineers of the future are now able to gain hands-on experience of driving rovers while at school and university. Previously these skills could only be attained via specialised courses that were only available to a few people."Associate Professor John Culton
The University of Tokyo鈥檚 Professor Hirdy Miyamoto is one of the world leaders in planetary geoscience and the lead scientist of the TSUKIMI Lunar mission, and will lead the event from Tokyo.
Professor Miyamoto has been a key contributor to the ATCSR鈥檚 education research and outreach programs, delivering guest lectures and public seminars on planetary geoscience as well as taking part in specialist workshops on space resources.
鈥淏uilding relationships between universities through events such as this demonstrates the global collaboration that is fundamental in realising humanities future in space, and enables people to experience elements of space operations that will one day be common place,鈥 said Professor Miyamoto.
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Media contacts:
Associate Professor听John Culton, Director, Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources, the 成人大片. Mobile:听+61 (0)466 859 195. Email: john.culton@adelaide.edu.au
Fiona Crowe, Media Officer, the 成人大片. Mobile: 0419213333. Email: fiona.crowe@adelaide.edu.au