NASA selected Indian children's rover, for the first time in 10 high school students challenge
High school children from India will have a rover sent for the first time at NASA's Human Rover Exploration Challenge. This rover has been prepared by young tinkers and young scientists of the Navomesh Prasar Foundation. The children of this institute in Cuttack, Odisha have prepared a rover for this NASA challenge that can be run by two astronauts together. It is excellent for walking on the bumpy ground of Mars.
Most of the children in the Young Tinker and Navonmesh Prasar Foundation are from high school. These people are joining the NASA Human Rover Exploration Challenge 2021 for the first time. This team hopes that they will win the NASA Challenge and bring it.
Navomesh Prasar Foundation said that we had received a letter from NASA on 6 November 2020 regarding the selection of our rover. 10 children of the foundation have built this rover for 8 months continuously day and night. His rover name is NaPSAT 1.0. Its full name is Navonmesh Prasar Student Astronomy Team.
The weight of NaPSAT 1.0 is around 65 kg. It is 4.5 feet long, 4.2 feet high and 4.4 feet wide. If this rover wins the challenge, it will be part of the program to be sent to the moon in 2024 under NASA's Artemis Mission. After this, it can also be upgraded and sent to Mars mission to be held in 2028.
NaPSAT 1.0 rover is designed in such a way that it can be easily run on the rocky, high-pitched ground of Mars. This rover has a special type of crank arm system that uses three gears. Whereas in such rovers, only 2 gears are used.
This team has installed a triangle plate in the rover by not using bars for steering. So that the distribution of power is in the right way. Due to such innovation, the rover of this team is different and special compared to the other rovers selected in the challenge so far.
NASA also shared a photo of the team making it with NaPSAT 1.0 from its Twitter handle. This has encouraged the children of this team. This team says that we are not just 10 people, we have the support of students from all over India. This will inspire all those students who want to do something new for science.
Kailash, a member of this team, told that he used to work at his father's bicycle mechanic shop earlier. Now he is the leader of this team. Similarly, students from Bangalore, do Dati Danda welding work. He has played an important role in connecting and creating the structure of the rover of this team. A student named Reena was helping with them. But when Reena joined this team, she joined as a manual metal arc welding expert.
Due to the Corona epidemic, this team could not go to Alabama this time in April. Despite this, their rover has been chosen by NASA. They hope that if the Indian team wins this NASA challenge, then it will raise the name of the country and will inspire other children of the country to do such work.
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