April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... Institution’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) first became concerned about these issues when the Google Lunar XPRIZE was announced, in 2007. If there was ever going to be a Smithsonian on the Moon, something would need to be done to preserve...
01 October 2018
ispace partners with SpaceX for 2020 & 2021 Moon missions
...“white rabbit” in Japanese, based on local folklore about a rabbit on the Moon—comes 6 months after the closing of Google Lunar XPRIZE. The HAKUTO-R program will act primarily as technology demonstration for ispace. Success criteria for Mission 1 has...
19 December 2016
JAXA signs an agreement for the development and creation of a lunar mining industry
... technology to discover, map, and utilise resources in space. The company is also behind Team Hakuto, a contender in the Google Lunar XPRIZE with aims to send the first privately developed micro-rover to the Moon in 2017, in an attempt to win the...
30 November 2016
German company announce their 'Mission to the Moon' plans
... Cernan set while on the Moon! The PTScientists are one of 16 teams still in the running for the Google Lunar XPRIZE (http://lunar.xprize.org/), and they will be using a commercial launch vehicle to blast their vehicles in to space. Once in orbit...
12 April 2019
Beresheet spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
... centre in Yehud, Israel. Beresheet has come a long way since its inception. Originally designed to take part in Google’s Lunar XPRIZE by the nonprofit organisation SpaceIL, together with IAI the two continued working on the 1.5 meter (5-foot-tall...
13 July 2018
Israel plan to launch historic Moon mission later this year
...Google Lunar X Prize, but the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL organisation is still shooting for the Moon and plans to send its lander to the lunar...founded by three young engineers to compete for Google's $20 million Lunar X Prize, the promise of landing an...
