Tag - teams

With all the buzz in the media lately about the status of the teams competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE and who's leading, I thought it would be fun to add a little visual stimulation to compliment all the articles being written.

25 teams from around the world are currently building robots, rockets, and lunar landers to win the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE.

This year shows some impressive advancements in the rover designs, propulsion and avionics technology. Teams are stepping it up as the competition thickens and with all the recent headlining developments in space, the Moon does not seem so far away.

A couple of weeks ago at the Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Summit, an announcement was made that team Next Giant Leap has been acquired by Moon Express. As a well-established team with several valuable partnerships (such as Draper Labs and Sierra Nevada Corporation), NGL is undoubtedly a strategic asset for Moon Express; and it is worth noting that we fully expect to see more of these types of acquisitions and mergers occurring between teams as the competition progresses. In fact, X PRIZE considers these to be positive indicators of the maturation and advancement of the prize.

Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa! This is the host city of this year's International Astronautical Congress, the largest international space conference that takes place each year. This is the 62nd  IAC, although this is the first that I have attended and also the first time that the IAC has taken place on African soil.

As you may have noticed, we’ve made a few changes around here! The redesign of the Google Lunar X PRIZE website has been a long time coming, and we’re pretty excited about our new virtual home. We’d like to take you on a quick tour of the site to point out some of the new features and help you get your bearings.