XPRIZE Gives Moon Express a GO for 2017 Launch to Land First Private Spacecraft on Moon

By Mike Killian, on December 8th, 2015

An artist illustration of the Moon Express MX-1 lunar lander on its mission to the moon. On Dec. 8, 2015, Google Lunar XPRIZE officially verified the company’s launch contract, paving the way for a moonshot by the end of 2017. Image Credit: Moon Express

Teams from around the world have been competing to […]

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Israeli Team Secures First Google Lunar XPRIZE Launch Contract for 2017 Moonshot on Falcon-9

By Mike Killian, on October 7th, 2015

An Illustration of SpaceIL’s New Spacecraft Design on the Moon. Image Credit: SpaceIL

Teams from around the world have been competing to win the global Google Lunar XPRIZE race to the moon for close to a decade, each building a privately-funded robotic spacecraft and mission to be the first to land on the […]

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Moon Bound Google Lunar XPRIZE Awards $5.25 Million in Milestone Prizes

By Talia Landman, on January 28th, 2015

The $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition designed to inspire young scientists and engineers to build a robot and safely land it on the lunar surface while on a strict budget. (Photo credit: Google Lunar XPRIZE)

A total of $5.25 million in Milestone Prizes was awarded to five teams this week, […]

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Moon Express Puts Space Launch Complex-36 Back in Business

By Talia Landman, on January 25th, 2015

 

An artist illustration of the Moon Express MX-1 lunar lander on its mission to the Moon.Image Credit: Courtesy of Moon Express Inc.

A private commercial space company headquartered in California recently announced it has signed an agreement to use the historic Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […]

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Google Lunar X Prize: Who To Watch

By Emily Carney, on April 5th, 2013

Image Credit: GLXP

This week in Santiago, Chile, 20 out of 23 Google Lunar X Prize Teams (GLXP) are meeting for an annual summit to better gauge which teams are moving forward with their mission.

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Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Moon Express Acquires Rocket City Space Pioneers, Edges Closer to Goal

By Jason Rhian, on January 5th, 2013

Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP) team Moon Express has acquired fellow GLXP team Rocket City Space Pioneers and have thus poised themselves one step closer to landing their rover on the Moon. Image Credit: NASA

One of the teams competing in the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP), Moon Express, has reached an agreement […]

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'Culturally Significant': Google Prize to Honour Sacred Lunar Sites

By Ben Evans, on May 25th, 2012

One of the iconic images from Apollo 11 was Buzz Aldrin's photograph of his own bootprint in the ancient lunar soil. The NASA-Google agreement will hopefully ensure that sites of such cultural importance remain undamaged. Photo Credit: NASA

Scattered across the Moon’s surface, hundreds of artefacts tell the tale of humanity’s first foray […]

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Payloads Workshop Highlights Commercial Space Efforts

By Julian Leek, on March 24th, 2012

Space Florida and the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium hosted a work shop on space flight payloads this week in Cocoa, Florida. Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studios

Space Florida and the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium sponsored the first Space Flight Payloads Workshop at the Florida Solar Energy Center in […]

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