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• X - Sep 17 2007 | google, space, lunar, prize, xprize, competition

  This is very cool. It would be a blast to actually work on this. Who wants to buy me a rocket?

  • mike - Sep 17 2007
    

    The official rules page is quite meager:

    http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/competition/guidelines

    It's not clear if you can use a non-private launch system to put your private lunar vehicle on the surface.

    I wonder if you could piggy-back a rocket package on Spaceship One to get a boost to orbit, and then the moon.

    Given that no one has even produced an earth-orbiting satellite by private means, the moon shot, with it's 1GB "mooncast" data package seems quite the feat.

  • brad - Sep 18 2007
    

    Yeah! Starting with an existing platform capable of geosynchronous insertion... makes the project seem so much more do-able. This sounds like a job for SeaLaunch!
• mike - Sep 17 2007 | google, space, lunar, prize, xprize, competition

  The official site of the $20 million Google-Lunar-X-Prize. The are currently videos from the official launch with Sergey Brin and Peter Diamandis.

  Quoted: A $20 million Grand Prize will be awarded to the team that can soft land a craft on the Moon that roams for at least 500 meters and transmits a Mooncast back to Earth. The Grand Prize is $20M until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15M until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE
• peterfranken - Sep 15 2007 | google, lunar, xprize, moon, prize, race

  The Google Lunar X PRIZE seeks to create a global private race to the Moon that excites and involves people around the world and, accelerates space exploration for the benefit of all humanity.

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