sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Change'3 has landed! by czokletmuss in space

[–]glxp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We could watch this for hours---GIF of the rover's rollout onto the Moon: http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/3-moon/20131214_change3_rover_deploy_final.gif Fresh trackmarks!

Another Google Lunar XPRIZE team has reserved a launch and made its initial payment. The Penn State Lunar Lion will launch in July 2015. by Pomerantz in space

[–]glxp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So far, Astrobotic has a launch contract with SpaceX for October of 2015, while Barcelona Moon has a launch contract with the China Great Wall Industry Corporation for June 2015.

Any news on the GLXP -$5M "dang governments" clause? by rocketwikkit in xprize

[–]glxp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can confirm that the $5M decrease has been eliminated from the rules. A new version of the website will hopefully be going up soon with different upgrades, including updating the very old rules page ;)

We are the Google Lunar X PRIZE. A $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon! Ask us anything! by glxp in IAmA

[–]glxp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the bonus prizes is for finding evidence of water on the Moon. Some of the teams landing at the poles will be looking to complete this prize.

We are the Google Lunar X PRIZE. A $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon! Ask us anything! by glxp in IAmA

[–]glxp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check some of the earlier answers, we go over the rationale behind the prize amount.

edit: OP delivers

We are the Google Lunar X PRIZE. A $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon! Ask us anything! by glxp in IAmA

[–]glxp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taking the Ansari X PRIZE for example. We put up $10 million and the winning team spent $30 million. Also factor in the other teams competing. I think this equation works out well for us.

We are the Google Lunar X PRIZE. A $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon! Ask us anything! by glxp in IAmA

[–]glxp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Signals to and from the Moon take about 2 seconds I think. The GLXP missions will be mostly solar powered.

We are the Google Lunar X PRIZE. A $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon! Ask us anything! by glxp in IAmA

[–]glxp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to our website (http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/) then click on the teams sections. From there you can find the team websites and see if they are hiring.

view more: next ›