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Northeastern University Mars Rover Team

Boston, MA, US • 10 - 19 Employees
Aerospace/Defense

We are a talented group of students from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Our team is composed of students from a variety of majors, including engineering, computer science, and life science. Every year, we compete in The Mars Society University Rover Challenge (URC), a competition where teams are invited annually to design and build a Mars Rover that can compete at the Mars Desert Research Society in southern Utah.The competition requires completion of four missions: the Science Mission (Life Detection), Extreme Retrieval and Delivery Mission, Equipment Servicing Mission, and Autonomous Traversal Mission. More information about the competition can be found here: https://urc.marssociety.org/