{"id":233223,"date":"2015-09-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"9975f13525503979504a23bc04f77281"},"modified":"2015-09-01T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:00:00","slug":"the-zero-robotics-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=233223","title":{"rendered":"The Zero Robotics tournament"},"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\/2015\/09\/the_zero_robotics_tournament\/15577539-4-eng-GB\/The_Zero_Robotics_tournament_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nCode, play and command your space droid \u2013 students across Europe can bring a squadron of minisatellites to life on the International Space Station as the ultimate space robot game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the fourth year, the Zero Robotics tournament will turn the Station into a gaming arena for upper secondary-school pupils. The competition challenges youngsters to write instructions that control volleyball-sized satellites through a virtual field mined with obstacles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Spheres \u2212 short for Synchronised Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites \u2013 obey remote commands and can hover around the weightless Station using their own power, propulsion and navigation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tournament is not only about writing a computer code. Participants must solve problems, apply their maths and physics knowledge and work in teams to achieve success.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/Zero_Robotics_Secondary_School_Tournament_2015_to_launch\">More about the Zero Robotics tournament 2015<\/a><\/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\/2015\/09\/the_zero_robotics_tournament\/15577539-4-eng-GB\/The_Zero_Robotics_tournament_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nCode, play and command your space droid \u2013 students across Europe can bring a squadron of minisatellites to life on the International Space Station as the ultimate space robot game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the fourth year, the Zero Robotics tournament will turn the Station into a gaming arena for upper secondary-school pupils. The competition challenges youngsters to write instructions that control volleyball-sized satellites through a virtual field mined with obstacles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Spheres \u2212 short for Synchronised Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites \u2013 obey remote commands and can hover around the weightless Station using their own power, propulsion and navigation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tournament is not only about writing a computer code. Participants must solve problems, apply their maths and physics knowledge and work in teams to achieve success.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/Zero_Robotics_Secondary_School_Tournament_2015_to_launch\">More about the Zero Robotics tournament 2015<\/a><\/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-233223","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\/233223","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=233223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233223\/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=233223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}