Nuna 1

The team consisted mainly of students from the Delft University of Technology who were guided by former astronaut Wubbo Ockels.

The Nuna won the World Solar Challenge in Australia in 2001; the race ran from Darwin in the north to Adelaide in the south.

[1] The car's shell was covered with the best dual-junction and triple-junction gallium-arsenide solar cells, developed for satellites.

[2] A small strip of silicon solar cells on the side of the car was very special for a different reason: the communication equipment was powered by a strip of cells that originally belonged to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

These cells were part of a large solar array, retrieved by ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier and brought back to Earth in 1993 with a Space Shuttle.