Cyclone Space Mining ready to defend title at NASA Robotic Mining Competition
Even though other teams have started to copy some of their winning ideas, the student-engineers of Cyclone Space Mining feel good about defending last year’s NASA championship. “That’s all right,”...
View ArticleCyclone Space Mining invited to first “World Cup” of robotic space mining
A disappointing first round in the mining arena kept Cyclone Space Mining from defending its NASA title. But, the team still made its presence known at the NASA Robotic Mining Competition at Florida’s...
View ArticleCyclone Space Mining competes in Hawaii; once again demonstrates it has built...
There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to test space rovers....
View ArticleCyclone Space Mining pushing to remain a leader at NASA compeition
Early in the week, the mining robot of Cyclone Space Mining was mostly a pile of parts in the team’s campus workshop. And that pile was still too small. So team members were working at a bank of nearby...
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Cyclone Space Mining team to compete in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition
For yet another summer, members of the Cyclone Space Mining team will leave behind Iowa’s rolling cornfields for the for palm tree-lined beaches of east central Florida. A few members of the team pose...
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Cyclone Space Mining nabs two second-place finishes at NASA Robotic Mining...
The Cyclone Space Mining team with their rover in Florida. Photo by Cyclone Space Mining/Facebook Iowa State University’s Cyclone Space Mining team nabbed two second-place finishes at the 8th annual...
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Cyclone Space Mining finishes 2nd overall at NASA’s 2017 Robotic Mining...
The Cyclone Space Mining team poses with their two rovers: Space Ketchup and Space Mustard. Front row (L-R): Jim Heise (Faculty Adviser), Taylor Tuel, Ryan Thompson, Taylor Meyer, Joseph Talley, David...
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Cyclone Space Mining launches new concept for NASA’s Robotic Mining Competition
This story is courtesy of the ISU News Service. Cyclone Space Mining’s latest robot is all about trenching deep into NASA’s simulated Martian soil. Photo courtesy of Cyclone Space Mining. AMES, Iowa –...
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