Google Lunar X Prize Roundup #2 November 30, 2009
Posted by Nick Azer in : Google Lunar X Prize, Google Lunar X Prize Roundup, Odyssey Moon , trackbackIt’s time for the second installment of my weekly Google Lunar X PRIZE roundups!
- NASA is taking suggestions for their own new space prize until December 7th!
- Odyssey Moon’s site has undergone a dramatic (and spiffy) makeover—and they’re looking for potential payloads! They also now have six current customers (companies) listed…including an effort to place a Swedish cottage on the Moon (seriously! :) ).
- Team ARCA posted a cool Q+A about their recent test flight of the Helen rocket and their interesting methods, including a nugget about elbow room problems with Romanian launches…
- Team White Label Space announced a new partner—Spanish electronics systems firm Emxys!
- Team FREDNET now has a live streaming video show every week (with chat, etc.), Tuesdays at 11am EST
- You can now help name team SYNERGY MOON’s lander! (If you donate, and the donations add up to their goal…)
- White Label Space also solved their Steve Allen double-agent mystery! ;)
- The official blog, The Launch Pad, posted an interesting breakdown of the NASA contracts awarded last week, alongside other goodies.
- Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes for the GLXP and active community emissary, will be speaking at the Imagine 09 Conference in Houston, TX this week.
And that’s it for this week’s wrapup—come back next Monday for more, and click here for all roundups :)
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