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The Open University students' Rocket-1 is in New Mexico being prepared for the Spaceport America Cup competition this week. DesignSpark is a proud sponsor of the OU Planetary Robotics Student Team (as you might guess from the picture above).

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There are four entries this year from the UK and we wish them all success - especially so for the OU team naturally. You can follow the OU team's progress on Twitter @OUroverteam or on their blog.

Engineer, PhD, lecturer, freelance technical writer, blogger & tweeter interested in robots, AI, planetary explorers and all things electronic. STEM ambassador. Designed, built and programmed my first microcomputer in 1976. Still learning, still building, still coding today.