The Florida Space Institute is proud to be hosting the 2024 NASA Lunabotics Qualification Challenge from May 10-15th at the Exolith® Lab. The NASA Lunabotics Challenge is a cutting-edge event that brings together talented university teams from across the country to develop and deploy robots capable of utilizing lunar regolith in a simulated lunar environment.
To view or download the Lunabotics Guidebook, click here:
To participants wanting to join our Slack group, click here:
For any questions about the event, please contact lunabotics@ucf.edu.
regolith test bin
The Florida Space Institute, partnering with Exolith® Labs, are building what will be the largest known Lunar Highland Regolith Test Bin in which the competition will take place.
A large-scale regolith bin offers:
- Accurate Lunar mineralogy and topography including wider ranges of coarse Anorthosite and Basalt.
- ISRU mining capability
- Gravity offloading to match Lunar Gravity
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Lunabotics Challenge Travel Information
The competition will be held at the UCF Exolith® Lab, located at:
532 S Econ Cir Suite 100, Oviedo, FL
HOTELS NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA:
The Celeste (Marriot) Orlando East
La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Orlando
Courtyard by Marriott Orlando East / UCF Area
Doubletree by Hilton Orlando East / UCF Area
Hampton Inn & Suites Orlando East / UCF
Residence Inn by Marriot Orlando East / UCF
