The X Prize Foundation, headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., spearheaded the $10 millionAnsari X Prize, which was created to jumpstart the development of private commercial transportation to suborbital space. That prize was won by Scaled Composites of California, which is now building a commercial...
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...
It's official: The $30 million Google Lunar X Prize is no more. "After close consultation with our five finalist Google Lunar X Prize teams over the past several months, we have concluded that no team will make a launch attempt to reach the moon by the March 31, 2018, deadline," X...
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...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competition, today announced that the deadline for the $30M Googl
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...
commerce. He waxes about the moon as a “gas station in the sky” for fueling spacecraft bound for Mars and the asteroids. He predicts that space pioneers will be the new forty-niners, who drove America’s gold rush. And he predicts that Moon Express will claim the $20 million XPRIZE....
“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 ...
Google gets the majority of its imagery from DigitalGlobe and Ball Aerospace is currently constructing new satellites for the company, as highlighted in the BBC report. The new WorldView-3 satellite will be capable of capturing objects 25cm (10 inches) across, but the report notes Google and ...
Ariel Schwartz