IceX: Google Lunar X PRIZE |Roundup #38

Donnerstag, Dezember 02, 2010

Google Lunar X PRIZE |Roundup #38

The 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 :)