In the past few weeks the PolAres rover got wheels with their wheels suspension. Willibald Stumptner of the Austrian Space Forum made a visit to the HTL Kapfenberg (a technical college in South-Eastern part of Austria) to see for himself the operational functionality of the rover. So a first cargo was transported by the rover.

In the next weeks the PolAres rover team will work with high pressure on the locomotion of all rover wheels as well as on the OBDH (On Board Data Handling) system. After all Phileas will be part of the Rio Tinto Mars expedition simulation and will have it’s first field test on Spanish soil.

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