The XPRIZE Foundation (Culver City, CA, US) was conceived to encourage private industry and its innovators to attempt grand challenges that might otherwise go unmet. Its existence and its monetary incentives came to high-profile notice in the composites industry when Burt Rutan and his Scaled Comp...
To win the $30 million Google Lunar XPrize, teams are required to land a robot on the moon. That robot must travel at least 500 meters across the lunar surface and send high-definition video and imagery back to Earth. The Milestone Prizes have focused on three areas that are vital to th...
Google’s $20M Lunar XPrize Went Unclaimed, But Israel’s SpaceIL Still Plans ‘Moonshot’ Google’s $20 million prize in the prestigious Lunar X Prize competition may have gone unclaimed, as none of the five finalists made the March 31, 2018 deadline to land an unmanned spacecraft on the...
Google and the XPrize Foundation have launched a competition worth US$5 million (£4 million) to developreal-world applications for quantum computersthat benefit society—by speeding up progress on one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, for example. The principles of quantum physics suggest ...
It was back in 2007 that the organization introduced the Google Lunar Xprize, a $30 million purse of prizes for thefirst independent team to land a rover on the moonand move 500 meters or more across the lunar surface, all while sending back high-definition video to those of us still stu...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competition, today announced that the deadline for the $30M Googl
Google's Lunar XPrize Is Over. Spaceflight Innovation, However, Is Not. After three deadline extensions, it looks like Google's $30 million XPrize will remain unclaimed. / Off World/ Lunar Rover/ Space Exploration/ XprizeImage by Audi Moonshot, Shot Down The time has finally come: Google is...
“ticket to the moon” on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher, with a mission scheduled for the second half of 2017. With this, SpaceIL becomes the first team to produce a verified launch contract in the US$30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE competition, and aims to accomplish not only the first ...
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