Back to the moon - a new space race
On January 26, five teams participating in the Google Lunar XPrize contest gathered at the California Academy of Sciences, where Google announced the distribution of the first tranche of grants in the amount of $ 5.25 million . Grants are allocated without any conditions, as a "gift", they will help private companies to continue their development for the lunar program.
The Astrobotic company with a lunar landing module of 3x3 meters received three grants at once, totaling $ 1.75 million in the “Landing”, “Mobility” and “Survey” categories.
The main winner at this stage was the company Astrobotic (see the caption for the photo). In addition to her, grants for $ 1.25 million received a California startup Moon Express in the categories of "Landing" and "Shooting."
Other prize-winners are Indian company Indus ($ 1 million in the Landing category), German Part-Time Scientists ($ 500 thousand in the Mobility category and $ 250 thousand in the Shooting category) and Japanese Hakuto ($ 500 thousand in the " Mobility").
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Testing the Moon Express Landing Module
All these companies will remain participants in the further Lunar XPrize marathon, the winners of which will receive $ 20 million for first place and $ 5 million for second. There are also bonuses for $ 5 million for additional finds, for example, water on the moon.
Under the terms of the contest, the winner will be the team that will be able to safely land the robot on the surface of the moon, after which it will move 500 meters to the side or inland and begin streaming in HDTV quality.
Deadline is December 31, 2016.
Google is confident that the construction of the lunar base - the work of the coming years.
To the first stage of the distribution of grants, the company posted in open access a short documentary film “Back to the Moon - The New Space Race ”.
The United States, the European Union, Russia, and China, not to mention private companies that also want to participate, announced their plans to build lunar bases.
“The moon - the“ eighth continent ”- has an area larger than that of North America and Brazil combined ... and people explored only 5% of the territory! There are amazing wonders of nature, the most valuable resources, secrets that are waiting for a solution, ”says Lunar XPrize website.
“At the time of Apollo, everyone represented the Moon just as a dry dead stone. It turned out that this is not the case - it is a world with vast resources of platinum, nickel, iron, silver and all the things that we consider valuable on Earth, ” says Robert Richards, executive director of Moon Express, who participates in "Space race" Lunar XPrize. In recent years, this company has already bought into the ownership of four other participants in the competition.
New space race begins!
The Astrobotic company with a lunar landing module of 3x3 meters received three grants at once, totaling $ 1.75 million in the “Landing”, “Mobility” and “Survey” categories.
The main winner at this stage was the company Astrobotic (see the caption for the photo). In addition to her, grants for $ 1.25 million received a California startup Moon Express in the categories of "Landing" and "Shooting."
Other prize-winners are Indian company Indus ($ 1 million in the Landing category), German Part-Time Scientists ($ 500 thousand in the Mobility category and $ 250 thousand in the Shooting category) and Japanese Hakuto ($ 500 thousand in the " Mobility").
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Testing the Moon Express Landing Module
All these companies will remain participants in the further Lunar XPrize marathon, the winners of which will receive $ 20 million for first place and $ 5 million for second. There are also bonuses for $ 5 million for additional finds, for example, water on the moon.
Under the terms of the contest, the winner will be the team that will be able to safely land the robot on the surface of the moon, after which it will move 500 meters to the side or inland and begin streaming in HDTV quality.
Deadline is December 31, 2016.
Google is confident that the construction of the lunar base - the work of the coming years.
To the first stage of the distribution of grants, the company posted in open access a short documentary film “Back to the Moon - The New Space Race ”.
The United States, the European Union, Russia, and China, not to mention private companies that also want to participate, announced their plans to build lunar bases.
“The moon - the“ eighth continent ”- has an area larger than that of North America and Brazil combined ... and people explored only 5% of the territory! There are amazing wonders of nature, the most valuable resources, secrets that are waiting for a solution, ”says Lunar XPrize website.
“At the time of Apollo, everyone represented the Moon just as a dry dead stone. It turned out that this is not the case - it is a world with vast resources of platinum, nickel, iron, silver and all the things that we consider valuable on Earth, ” says Robert Richards, executive director of Moon Express, who participates in "Space race" Lunar XPrize. In recent years, this company has already bought into the ownership of four other participants in the competition.
New space race begins!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/375925/
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