Ukraine’s MarsHopper tops People’s Choice finalists of NASA SpaceApps Challenge

Developed by a team from Kyiv (Kiev), the Ukrainian MarsHopper aircraft project tops the list of the People’s Choice finalists of NASA’s SpaceApps Challenge 2016, one of the world’s largest international annual hackathons.

The voting will close on May 20, the hackathon’s website said. As of 11:00 Kyiv time on Tuesday, May 17, MarsHopper, which is computer modeling of a plane for investigation of Mars poles and its surroundings, scored about 12,300 supporters’ votes.