Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #29 September 22, 2010
Posted by Nick Azer in : Google Lunar X Prize, Google Lunar X Prize Roundup , trackbackIt’s time for another bonus-sized dose of Google Lunar X PRIZE goodness, this time covering August 20th-September 13th.
Here’s your three weeks of highlights:
- A new team was announced— Rocket City Space Pioneers! Check out their first post, the Dynetics press release, and my own look at the team :) The official GLXP Launch Pad also featured the team leader’s other rocket tinkerings!
- Team Odyssey Moon CEO Bob Richards resigned. (Sad to see him go—a comment from him on this blog way back in its infancy is what opened my eyes to the potential and kind of audience this little project of mine could have. Totally blew my mind that a team found, read, and commented on my site. Best of luck on all things in your future endeavors, Dr. Richards :) )
- The MoonBots winners were announced! Future lunar pioneers :)
- Also announced was the fourth Google Lunar X PRIZE team summit, to be held October 4-5 on the Isle of Man!
- Team ARCA featured their Mission 4 command center, loading of Mission 4B elements, their new partnership with SC CALOR, and their makeover,
- Team Astrobotic added Caterpillar as a team sponsor! Also, they posted a video tour of their Lunar Expo at Carnegie Mellon (as well asphotos), and also blogged about a Moon Arts Group open house there!
- Team White Label Space featured touch screen technology for rover control—including a plan to have their rover be controlled by fans’ phones during their mission! They also added student help on their rover prototype design, blogged about the heat challenges of the moon, presented for Attraktor, and featured a team member presenting a paper at the International Astronautics Congress (IAC) 2010!
- Team Next Giant Leap‘s director of marketing was selected as a finalist for Ernst+Young’s 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year! The team also posted an update on their rover’s landing gear!
- Team JUXTOPIA_JURBAN is participating in a forum on opportunities for African-Americans in NewSpace :)
- Team SELENE posted concepts of their weather baloon glider, as well as concepts of a ‘lán yuèliàng’ rocket rover and of a cloud chamber!
- Team Micro-Space blogged about a potential NanoSat opportunity with Interorbital Systems!
- Mike Doornbos, Evadot podcaster and GLXP Launch Pad guest-poster, blogged about the GLXP as a human story :)
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