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January 27, 2013 - by Barcelona Moon Team and GS Easy Space: 40kg on the Moon at 54MEur

Barcelona Moon Team and GS Easy Space: 40kg on the Moon at 54MEur

Barcelona Moon Team is a challenging mission to land a space craft on the Moon and deploy a robotic rover to complete the goals of the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition and, eventually, win it. But this will not be the end of the road of the team involved; actually it will be just the beginning.

Indeed, the BMT is a demonstration mission. Recently, it has just been established a new company, Galactic Suite Easy Space, which will promote future commercial trips to the Moon, first as a transportation company, then to exploit the lunar resources.

December 31, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team welcomes a new year

Barcelona Moon Team welcomes a new year

Dear friends and followers,

Barcelona Moon Team starts a new year in the GLXP competition. As you know we registered in April 2010, about two and a half years ago. We have been one of the lasts to do it. Nevertheless since then we achieved significant milestones both in the technical and the management areas.

December 30, 2012 - by Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

December 27, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team and SPAII space education activities

Barcelona Moon Team and SPAII space education activities

Since 2010 Barcelona Moon Team supports and assists aerospace education and outreach activities developed in Barcelona and its region, Catalonia.

SPAII Edutainment – SPAII is one organization strongly related with the BMT, with members of both organizations cooperating for the dissemination of science and technology in space within the Catalan society.

December 13, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team and the European Robotics Week at GMV : 2nd Robotics Day

Barcelona Moon Team and the European Robotics Week at GMV : 2nd Robotics Day

Barcelona Moon Team’s technical leader for the mission analysis and GNC systems, the Spanish company GMV, organized the “2nd Robotics Day” on November 29th to promote and stimulate robotics at Europe-wide level. This event was designed and developed as part of European Robotics Week (26 November– 2 December, 2012) with over 200 robotics-related events planned throughout Europe.

During the day it was showcased the latest research being carried out with mobile robots and the many applications of this technology.

November 23, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team collaborates with the National Broadcasting company

Barcelona Moon Team collaborates with the National Broadcasting company

The first cartoon produced in cooperation with the Barcelona Moon Team was broadcasted during October on the National Television of Catalonia for the popular children program “Una mà de contes”.

Barcelona Moon Team participated in the realization of this cartoon, which explains the dream of a child who wants to go to the Moon.

In the launch sequence, the countdown is featured, as a tribute to Fritz Lang’s movie “Frau im Mond” which anticipated the real rocket launch run.

November 16, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team invites Chinese Space Institutes to visit its Spanish Counterpart

Barcelona Moon Team invites Chinese Space Institutes to visit its Spanish Counterpart

During the Barcelona Moon Team summit held in Madrid between the 6 and 8 of November, several meetings were held between the Chinese delegation and the Spanish teams.

The technical meetings were held in CASA Espacio and we could visit their facilities in which the company produces the different structures of the Ariane 5 in carbon fiber. The machinery used for this purpose is impressive as the diameter of the Ariane 5 is more than 5 meters. Those machines have seven principal axes and two rotational axes and can do flat, conical or cylindrical elements.

November 15, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team technical meetings in Madrid during BMT summit

Barcelona Moon Team technical meetings in Madrid during BMT summit

Barcelona Moon Team held its summit last week in Madrid for three days. It was the first time that our Chinese partners joined personally the Spanish teams to the technical meetings.

November 6, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team summit starts in Madrid

Barcelona Moon Team summit starts in Madrid

Barcelona Moon Team summit starts today in Madrid and will last for three days. All the industrial partners are gathering these days to discuss the mission around the same table.

November 4, 2012 - by Barcelona Moon Team might be a test bed mission for European Lunar Lander

Barcelona Moon Team might be a test bed mission for European Lunar Lander

A few days ago, Astrium GmbH announced that a European lunar lander and rover mission could be designed, built, launched and operated for six months on the lunar surface for 500 million euros ($650 million).

So far, the mission a received a two-year contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) that ends in mid-November, and now it struggles for 100 million euros for two more years of work to carry the project to preliminary design review. The decision will be made by ESA government ministers during a meeting scheduled Nov. 20-21 in Naples, Italy.