By: Blaze Sanders Commercial Space = “New Space” 10/15/2011
3rd Annual Space Entrepreneurship Forum on Capitol Hill With cooperation from representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and representative Chaka Fattah Rayburn House Building, Washington DC Around September 15
JURBAN Google Lunar X-Prize What? Why? How? The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit HD video, images and data back to the Earth. To expose and significantly increase the science, technology, engineering, math, and entrepreneurial (STEME) proficiency of underserved and disadvantaged populations through empirically researched interventions. Plus it’s just awesome!! Juxtopia a local Baltimore technology company is amassing $16 million worth of funding, and providing professional leadership for the team. Swarm robotics & novel locomotion (no wheels) Augmented Reality mission control & public viewing Airbag landing near Apollo 12 site Advertising on the Moon (Moon pies, MJ moon walk shoes,...)
Mission Architecture of the JURBAN Google Lunar X-Prize Team Step 1 – Direct Launch Step 2 – Airbag Landing Step 3 – 500 m Transverse Step 4 – HD Mooncast and thermal imaging
From Warwick Mills, our airbag supplier
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