Symbiosis Coaching Sponsors Indian Team for NASA's Lunabotics 2011

Online, March 21, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Symbiosis Coaching, the leading provider of internationally certified Life Coach training in India, is pleased to announce their corporate sponsorship of the Indian entry for NASA's International Lunabotics Mining Competition 2011. This competition will be held at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from May 23rd to May 28th, and a team from India - the BIT Mesra (Patna campus) team, Gurutva - has qualified to present their proposal.

This is a flagship event organized by NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and one of the biggest in the calendar year.

The NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition is a University Level competition designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and encourage them to innovate. NASA will directly benefit from the project by encouraging the development of innovative lunar excavation techniques which may result in clever ideas and solutions that could be applied to an actual lunar excavation device or payload.

The event will last five days - May 23rd to May 28th, 2011. The challenge for qualifying teams is to build a remote controlled or autonomous excavator that can collect a minimum of 10 kilos of lunar simulant in 15 minutes. The complexities of the challenge include the abrasive characteristics of the lunar simulant, the weight and size limitations of the lunabot and the ability to control the robot from a remote controlled center.

Winners of this competition will get an opportunity to participate in the NASA Desert RATS. NASA also plans to incorporate the winning design into its scheme of things while planning its Moon mission 2020.

The focus of the competition is on developing a low cost and technologically superior rover/excavator. The Gurutva team robot is designed on the principle of Archimedes Screw. The Screw works at its highest efficiency between the angles of 45-60 degrees. The Gurutva team has gone through a number of trials for different designs, and for the conditions that they are expected to follow - the Moon's conditions - the Archimedes is the best and most efficient option, as the vacuum assists in retrieving dust from the ground and delivering it to the sump tank. The weight of the bot is 80 Kg and its dimensions are 1.5m x 0.75m x 2m.

Symbiosis Coaching, in keeping with its philosophy of contributing positively to the Indian society - is proud to play its part in this endeavor and to help Indian students present their proposal to NASA.

Symbiosis Coaching wishes the Gurutva team the very best in their endeavor. As they say at NASA - good luck and God speed!

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