Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #38 December 2, 2010
Posted by Nick Azer in : Google Lunar X Prize, Google Lunar X Prize Roundup , trackbackThe Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition challenging private space enterprises to land a rover on the Moon. Each week, I round up all the latest developments as the teams rocket forwards and upwards…
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Now that we’ve all recovered from the feasting and shopping, it’s time for a Thanksgiving-sized GLXP roundup. So, here goes with three weeks (Nov 8th-29th) of goodness, including a flurry of activity from SELENE and a number of new partnerships all around:
- Team SELENE announced the winner of their spin stabilized rocket contest (and posted outtakes from the competition)! They also became sponsors of a Sugar Shot to Space team, and blogged about starting design on a four-wheel-drive rover; on design of a land-rover-rocket; on testing of a rocketed mini-DV camera; and about a design that comes full circle :)
- Team Part Time Scientists revealed their lander design! They also blogged about software failures.
- Team Rocket City Space Pioneers announced a partnership with the Hunstville Center for Technology! They also blogged about a satellite launch party at Dynetics :)
- Team FREDNET announced a new COO!
- Team SYNERGY MOON added a new partner: AU Vidulini!
- Team Astrobotic featured their rover’s mission control user interface design, as well as motor control for its camera and head!
- Team ARCA video blogged about propulsion installation!
- The official GLXP blog posted a video (complete with 80′s music) reminding that the deadline for team registration is near :)
- Evadot posted an update to their unofficial GLXP Scorecard!
- Team White Label Space’s Australian partner Lunar Numbat gave a TED talk on returning to the moon! The team also announced their new chief blog-o-naut :)
- Aspiring team Puli featured Hungarian scientist Zoltan Bay and his Moon radar experiment :)
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