Google Lunar X Prize - goal: to find traces of man on the moon.
Google and the X Prize Foundation set up a $ 30 million contest with prizes.
This money can be obtained only by a private company, which will be able to create and send a moon rover to the Earth’s satellite without government funding.
The Google Lunar X Prize will last until the last day of 2014. The main prize, $ 20 million, will be received by the team, which first landed a spacecraft on the moon, which will travel at least 500 meters across the satellite’s surface and send 1GB of data to Earth.
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It is, in particular, about photos and videos. If none of the companies can fulfill the conditions until the end of 2012, the prize amount will fall to $ 15 million, another $ 5 million will be available to the team, which will simply land its apparatus on the moon. A similar prize will be given to a company that performs other tasks.
For example, its apparatus must photograph the equipment left by a man on the moon, or go a distance of more than 5 km.
“We are confident that the teams will contribute to the development of new technologies of human presence on the moon,” said X Prize Peter Diamandis, announcing the start of the competition.
I recall:
In 2004, the X Prize Foundation established a prize of $ 10 million to a private company that can send a ship of its own production to space. He won the company Scaled Composites.
This money can be obtained only by a private company, which will be able to create and send a moon rover to the Earth’s satellite without government funding.
The Google Lunar X Prize will last until the last day of 2014. The main prize, $ 20 million, will be received by the team, which first landed a spacecraft on the moon, which will travel at least 500 meters across the satellite’s surface and send 1GB of data to Earth.
')
It is, in particular, about photos and videos. If none of the companies can fulfill the conditions until the end of 2012, the prize amount will fall to $ 15 million, another $ 5 million will be available to the team, which will simply land its apparatus on the moon. A similar prize will be given to a company that performs other tasks.
For example, its apparatus must photograph the equipment left by a man on the moon, or go a distance of more than 5 km.
“We are confident that the teams will contribute to the development of new technologies of human presence on the moon,” said X Prize Peter Diamandis, announcing the start of the competition.
I recall:
In 2004, the X Prize Foundation established a prize of $ 10 million to a private company that can send a ship of its own production to space. He won the company Scaled Composites.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14177/
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