Polish students win Mars rover competition: audio report

A Polish team has won this year’s European Rover Challenge, an international competition for Mars rovers held in Kielce, southeastern Poland. 

A Polish team has won this year’s European Rover Challenge, an international competition for Mars rovers held in Kielce, southeastern Poland.

Photo: facebook.com/europeanroverchallenge

Some 30 student teams, including four from Poland,  had signed up for the event that took place over the weekend. 

The overall winner of the European Rover Challenge #ERC2022 onsite formula Is:@AGHSpaceSystems from Krakow, Poland!

Congratulations!!! pic.twitter.com/OEAWzgVdMj

— European Rover Challenge (@rover_challenge) September 11, 2022

In an interview with Radio Poland’s Michał Owczarek, Łukasz Wilczyński, the president of the European Space Foundation, the event’s organiser, discusses the highlights of the latest, eighth edition of the European Rover Challenge and elaborates on the idea behind the project.

Click on the audio player above to listen.