The Southern California Selene Group withdrew from competition in June 2008.

At the dawn of the Space Age, conventional wisdom had it that geostationary communication satellites would be too complex to be commercially practical. Harold Rosen, who formed and led the team that designed and built the first successful geostationary satellite, the spin-stabilized Syncom launched in 1963, put that misconception to rest.

Then as now, Dr. Rosen has felt that many space exploration missions could likewise be simplified. The announcement of the Google Lunar X PRIZE has created the opportunity to demonstrate this.

To this end, and to compete for the grand prize, he has pulled together a volunteer group of talented, experienced and enthusiastic team members to form the Southern California Selene Group. These team members constitute some of the finest engineering minds in the space business, with over 130 space-related patents to their credit and active participation in over 500 space missions.


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