Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #11 March 12, 2010
Posted by Nick Azer in : Google Lunar X Prize, Google Lunar X Prize Roundup , trackbackAfter a little time away out of town which got me a tad behind, I’m back with Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #11, going all the way back to February 12th. It’s a doozy, so here we go:
- The official GLXP Launch Pad blog looked at the lessons from NASA’s centennial challenges, and also gave a good look at how the changes for NASA’s 2011 budget proposal affect prizes.
- The GLXP has a panel+booth at this year’s South By Southwest!
- The GLXP welcomes a new Education Manager: Chanda Gonzales!
- Team ARCA is now posting daily (!) video journal entries! Most impressive :)
- Team Odyssey Moon has released a foxy fact sheet on their “M-1′ lander!
- Team Euroluna posted an artist’s concept of their testing spacecraft, double cube sat mini-romit-I (which will test imaging and other technology)!
- Team Astrobotic posted a look at their anti-lunar heat technology taking shape, as well as a photo-riffic look at the development of the battery pack, a look at a test inertial measurement unit, motorizing a prototype, and more on lunar night survival tech–great stuff :)
- Micro-Space‘s Richard Speck posted a nice, detailed blog on the challenges of re-entry systems.
- Micro-Space also posted about a rocket race in Oklahoma and that state’s developing aerospace industry, and another detailed effort on lowest mass lunar systems.
- Team White Label Space team member Kazuya Yoshida conducted a seminar at their HQ on the technical challenges of lunar rovers. Check out the video, as well as video of his university’s rover lab.
- Team Part Time Scientists team member Robert Boehme did a video on the GLXP for Ignite Berlin!
- Team SELENE posted a video of obstacle avoidance and ignition testing for its hybrid rover, and also posted a video of a space microscope test.
- Team FREDNET posted a video of a counterweight system for their PicoRover.
- A C-Base Open Moon team member reported back from the 3rd International Symposium on Nano Structures (OZ-10).
- The GLXP got a great write-up from the United Arab Emirates’s mag The National.
- Team Astrobotic’s third rover prototype is getting it’s fashion model mode on.
- In a related note, Team Selenokhod did an internet radio talk on space+fashion.
- X PRIZE guy Will Pomerantz got his own LEGO moon landing depiction. :D
- And last but not least, the Bacon Prize is gaining steam…
Check back next Friday for Roundup #12! :)
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