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As this new web site changes and grows, past features will be archived here. The date each item was moved from the front page is noted.

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2012

January 19
2012 Botball season
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The 2012 Botball season has officially started.

Botball is expanding in various ways this season: A new Facebook registration - Botball Educational Robotics Program; A new website, Botball Community, social network for current and former Botball participants, New regional venues in Denver, Tucson, and Chicago, as well as in Austria and Qatar.

For 2012 team registration, as well as the schedules and regional venues, educator resources - software - the latest twitter, and sign-up for the newsletter, or to see video archives of past games, check the main Botball website.

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January 11
MSL Faces Trajectory Maneuver
MSL Trajectory
An engine firing on Jan. 11 will be the biggest maneuver that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will perform on its flight between Earth and Mars.

The action will use a choreographed sequence of firings of eight thruster engines during a period of about 175 minutes beginning at 3 p.m. PST (6 p.m. EST or 2300 Universal Time). It will redirect the spacecraft more precisely toward Mars to land at Gale Crater. The trajectory resulting from the mission's Nov. 26, 2011, launch intentionally misses Mars to prevent the upper stage of the launch vehicle from hitting the planet. That upper stage was not cleaned the way the spacecraft itself was to protect Mars from Earth's microbes.

The maneuver is designed to impart a velocity change of about 12.3 miles per hour (5.5 meters per second).

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January 07
2012 FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff
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The 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition Kick off took place on January 7th, 2012 at 10:30AM EST. Archived content is available by following the link below.



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Last Updated: February 9, 2012
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