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HANCOCK — As a line of families along Quincy Street watched and took photos, Santa Claus pulled up in his sleigh — or rather, on the back of a Hancock fire

HANCOCK — As a line of families along Quincy Street watched and took photos, Santa Claus pulled up in his sleigh — or rather, on the back of a Hancock fire

Michigan Tech students took home top honors — the Artemis Award — in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge. Students from Michigan Technological University want to shine a light on the darkest places of the moon. Their design, a rover called Tethered permanently shadowed Region EXplorer (T-REX), deploys a lightweight, superconducting cable to keep other lunar rovers powered and provide wireless communication as they operate in the extreme environme...

Michigan Tech robotics team continues with lunar rover News Highlights: Michigan Tech robotics team continues with lunar rover HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) – After winning NASA’s Big Idea Challenge, Michigan Tech’s space robotics team plans to continue its work on the “T-REX” robot. Paul van Susante, assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department, said the entire competition was held at a distance. That means schools across the country were able to compete from their own labs for the year-long competition. “The T-REX robot was designed, built and tested in this space,”...