MoonHound

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and here 

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So, in the end we obtained the fourth place, according to the official score tables.

We sincerely congratulate the winners and all the other teams for their results, whichever they are, as we know well how much work there is behind!

We would also like to underline the very friendly and cooperative environment that there has been during the trials: teams helped each other -sometimes in a relevant way- so who can say what could have happened in a strict competitive context?

In the end, we totally agree with the opinion that there was a clear winner (Univ. Bremen, being the only one capable to complete the challenge in the given time) and all other teams managing to participate with various degrees of success, whose difference was not significant.

Again, “bravo” to everybody (including the ESA staff and Active Connect) and hope to see you again in the 2nd LRC, we look forward to it!

The LRC participants, and some of the ESA and AC staff during the farewell drink

Find it here  motion-tests  or,as usual, in youtube:

Here rockssmall or in youtube:

Last pictures

Enjoy.

Yesterday night, at 2 AM we had our chance to show what the Hound was capable of. We managed to deploy from the lander, reach the craters’ rim, drop the comms relay, and descend it through the most difficult corridor.
Unfortunately, when we were looking for the sample the systems started to become irresponsive.
We managed to recover control of the Hound and look around a little bit more but what it turned out to be a not properly locked screw that made the turret turn. This made us doubt about the functioning of the camera, and after few trials more we had to abort the mission. 

Download here lrc-challenge3 or youtube.

Enjoy.

here: lrc-2  or in youtube:

Fotos.