London Science Festival at UCL

This year UCL's 'Your Universe' Festival of Astronmy is running in partnership with the London Science Festival 2011. For full listings including times, dates and UCL venues please follow the links below. On the 22 and 23 of October "Bridget", the first breadboard full-size rover developed and built as part of the ExoMars Rover Vehicle Project, will be on display in the Jeremy Bentham room at UCL. Funded by Astrium R&D, Bridget was designed to aid in the development of the flight ExoMars locomotion system, and was later used in the preliminary testing of the autonomous navigation system. Bridget comes to UCL after an intensive trial session on the martian-like terrain of Tenerife. In this exhibit, Bridget rovers over a simulated Mars landscape controlled remotely by an operator. Bridget speed is only a few centimeters per second, but it is powerful enough to overcome severe obstacles expected on the martian soil.