Bangladeshi Students’ Association
Robotics for Space Exploration (RSX)
Robotics for Space Exploration (RSX) strives to design and fabricate rovers engineered for operation in Mars-like conditions. Our rover team was selected from 114 teams across 15 countries to compete in the University Rover Challenge with a PDR score of 93.67, and CANSAT compete against 66 teams across 19 countries at the CanSat Competition hosted by AAS. RSX also hosted SEEK Jr, encouraging 65+ high-schoolers to engineer their own miniature rovers.
Key accomplishments
Space Exploration and Engineering Kompetition (SEEK) - A hackathon that RSX hosted in February 2025 which had over 300 registrations and over 200 participants. This year, in November 2025, approximately 68 GTA high school students participated in SEEK Jr. Students were given the opportunity to develop their engineering skills and apply their knowledge in the field of space robotics!
CANSAT - To qualify for the CanSat Challenge hosted by the American Astronautical Society (AAS), our CANSAT team submitted a PDR outlining a high level plan for the CanSat design through a 30 minute presentation and Q&A, scoring a 93.8%, subsequently ensuring a spot in the finals across 67 submissions in 19 countries. In the Critical Design Review, CANSAT scored a terrific 220/226, showing a strong, healthy competition readiness for the launch in Virginia on June 6th.
SAR - To qualify for the University Rover Challenge, we were required to submit a System Acceptance Review (SAR) which is a 5-minute video showcasing how we would accomplish the competition tasks and how our subsystems work. RSX received an astonishing score of 93.67% which led us to qualify for the URC finals at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah as one of the 38 teams out of the 115 submissions.
CPSIF funding impact
With CPSIF funding, our team was able to purchase operational communications and electrical equipment. These are crucial to our team. Without communications, we could not remotely operate the rover at distances of 1 kilometer away. This is the maximum distance the rover may travel at URC. Additionally, our science subteam was able to purchase new chemicals to perform a variety of life-detection tests. As a result, the science portion of our System Acceptance Review achieved a perfect score. RSX was also able to purchase new equipment for SEEK, enabling participants to design and build miniature rovers within 8 hours.
The SEEK Jr. hackathon hosted in November 2024. Photographer unknown
Members of RSX at the University Rover Challenge (URC) in Hanksville, Utah in May 2024. Back row: Krishanth Suthaharan, Isa Ramdath, Sarah Zhao, Eric Pinkerton, Jia Li, Katarina Mavric, Parm Ghai, Thomas Culham, Jeremy Mainella, Davis Ngresi. Front row: Alyssa Tiw, Bella Semeniuk, Trinity Yu, Andrew Noga, Adam Dimalanta. Photographer unknown.
Junior Arm Lead, Kaitlyn Wong, developing our rover arm during the RSX Saturday workshops in the Myhal Arena. Photographer: Trinity Yu
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