GMV supports Ciudad Rodrigo’s scaled-down solar system model

The association called Astróbriga has set up a project for building a scaled-down solar system in the district of Ciudad Rodrigo. The aims of this model, the first of its type ever set up in Spain, include science education and awareness-raising as well as boosting Ciudad Rodrigo's tourism.

GMV has joined in with this initiative, supporting its construction, making it the first major company to take part in the project directly; it is also the first private organization outside Ciudad Rodrigo to collaborate in the project.

This project will produce a scaled-down model of our planetary system. The sun, built up by about 2000 hand-made tin parts, will measure nearly 5 meters in diameter. The planets and their moons, reproduced in detail by 3D printing technology, will float in monoliths of steel and armored glass. A solar-panel-fed internal lighting system means it can be viewed at nighttime too.

GMV is helping to build the planet Mars, this collaboration being specifically recorded on the monolith in question. The company will also feature in the information panel to be placed under the sun, showing the names of all sponsoring organizations plus the private individuals participating in Astróbriga's collaborative citizen-financing campaign, launched under the name of Echa una mano (lend a hand).

The project has also received a subsidy from the Spanish Science and Technology Foundation (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología: FECYT), dependent on Spain's Ministry of Science and Innovation (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación).

On behalf of Astróbriga, its President, Nicolás Cahén, has thanked GMV for its collaboration and helping to raise the project's profile and make it better known.