The triumph of Czech high school students. They won a NASA competition with a proposal for remote satellite repair

The creature of darkness named Lasar was Simon Klinga, Viktor Admek, Anna Krebsov, Boris Brovkin, Richard Nikel. Study at gymnasiums in Brno-Bystrec, st nad Orlic, Pilsen and Blansko. “The Centenarians gave me one of the best presentations I’ve ever seen at the Conrad Challenge,” said the founder of the competition, Nancy Conradov, wife of the late Pete Conrad, who was the man on the moon.

According to Klinga, more than two thousand people entered the competition, and 26 projects reached the final. and won an award for the best presentation of the project in the categories of the expert jury and the public. They presented their idea to the insiders of the space center, astronauts or space engineers from NASA. Don’t do it because it’s easy. Put it first because it’s complicated, says astronaut Megan McArthur.

the one they drank with was able to trigger a reboot on a non-communicating satellite defending Earth. We can use a laser beam to destroy the satellite’s solar cells. You disconnect from the battery that starts to discharge. Physicist Viktor Admek said that this failure of the system’s behavior was evaluated as the need for a restart, so that the error could be resolved.

According to the financial manager of the project, Anna Krebsov, the event brought the students many new contacts with professionals and gave them a chance to finish. It was great to see how aerospace was going on behind the scenes, noted laser arm designer Richard Nikel. Lasar was the first Czech team in the Conrad Challenge final. But certainly not the last, added mechatronics engineer Boris Brovkin.

Even after their education, they won scholarships to, for example, the Florida Institute of Technology, Menlo College or Clarkson University.