{"id":217941,"date":"2013-10-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"0d633e5ed5fd602361c5c523ebbbe792"},"modified":"2013-10-16T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T22:00:00","slug":"esa-astronaut-luca-parmitano-talks-to-finalists-of-the-volare-space-robotics-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217941","title":{"rendered":"ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano talks to finalists of the Volare Space Robotics Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/10\/esa_astronaut_luca_parmitano_talks_to_finalists_of_the_volare_space_robotics_challenge\/13352453-1-eng-GB\/ESA_astronaut_Luca_Parmitano_talks_to_finalists_of_the_Volare_Space_Robotics_Challenge_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFrom 400 km above the surface of Earth, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano talked with high-school students during the finals of the Volare Space Robotics Challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSeven teams entered remote-controlled robots that battled on a mock-up of the International Space Station. Their mission: to unload cargo from ESA\u2019s Automated Transfer Vehicle as quickly as possible while avoiding objects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStudents at \u2018ground control\u2019 gave instructions wirelessly from the control centre next door. Multipliers added more strategy to the competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe two-day event was the culmination of lots of hard work from the seven teams of high-school students. The highlight for many students was visiting ESA\u2019s laboratories and of course a live call with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano straight from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/10\/esa_astronaut_luca_parmitano_talks_to_finalists_of_the_volare_space_robotics_challenge\/13352453-1-eng-GB\/ESA_astronaut_Luca_Parmitano_talks_to_finalists_of_the_Volare_Space_Robotics_Challenge_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nFrom 400 km above the surface of Earth, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano talked with high-school students during the finals of the Volare Space Robotics Challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSeven teams entered remote-controlled robots that battled on a mock-up of the International Space Station. Their mission: to unload cargo from ESA\u2019s Automated Transfer Vehicle as quickly as possible while avoiding objects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStudents at \u2018ground control\u2019 gave instructions wirelessly from the control centre next door. Multipliers added more strategy to the competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe two-day event was the culmination of lots of hard work from the seven teams of high-school students. The highlight for many students was visiting ESA\u2019s laboratories and of course a live call with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano straight from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}