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Inspiring Innovation with the Google Lunar X PRIZE Challenge

Join the global impact of the Google Lunar X PRIZE, offering $30M to privately financed teams landing robots on the Moon, with bonus incentives and diverse team concepts. Diverse teams and preferred providers contribute to the success of this initiative, aiming to educate, inspire, and incentivize space exploration while reducing costs and fostering technological advancements. Learn how government missions can be revolutionized by private endeavors and explore the challenges and opportunities in this groundbreaking field. Engage with online educational resources, participate in competitions like BotBall, and witness the impact of this initiative across various universities and institutions. Stay connected with the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge and explore the rich history and accomplishments of this prestigious prize.

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Inspiring Innovation with the Google Lunar X PRIZE Challenge

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  1. Bretton Alexander Executive Director for Space X PRIZE Foundation

  2. X PRIZE Foundation • Not-for-profit educational foundation • Offers incentive prizes to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of all humanity • Ansari X PRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight • $10M prize claimed in 2004 by SpaceShipOne • $10M Archon X PRIZE for Genomics • Rapid, affordable, complete human genome sequencing • $10 M Progressive Automotive X PRIZE • Mass producible, desirable cars that get >100 mpge • Future Prizes: • Education, Global Development, Life Sciences, Energy & Environment, Exploration

  3. What is the Google Lunar X PRIZE? • $30,000,000 in cash prizes • $20M 1st place • $5M 2nd place • $5M in Performance Bonuses • Open to world-wide competition • Privately financed teams must: • Land a robot on surface of the Moon • Explore the Moon by moving at least 500m (1/3 of a mile) • Transmit two “Mooncasts,” packages of high definition video and imagery • Bonuses encourage: • Roving further along the lunar surface • Visiting man-made hardware • Surviving a lunar night • Diverse teams • Finding water ice

  4. Google Lunar X PRIZE • Global Impact • >1,500 inquiries from >80 nations • Teams • 14 fully registered teams • Additional 4 “Letter of Intent” signatories • Headquartered in 5 nations: • Isle of Man, Italy, Malaysia, Romania, USA • Work being performed in more than 30 countries

  5. Diverse Teams, Diverse Concepts

  6. Preferred Providers • SpaceX : 10% Discount on all Falcon LVs • Universal Space Networks: Offering 50% discount on communication services (passes) for the spacecraft while in transit to the Moon and for 30 Earth Days of operations on the lunar surface. • SETI : Free downlink services through the Allen Telescope Array • Space Florida : $2M Bonus Prize if winner launches from Florida • AGI: Free seat license for STK (>$150,000 value)

  7. Why Are We Doing This? • Educate the global public about the benefits of space exploration • Inspire and excite the world about science, technology, engineering, and math • Incentivize and qualify new engineers and entrepreneurial companies able to design, build, deliver, and operate space hardware • Lower the costs of space exploration, opening the space frontier to new ideas and new participants • Spin off new technologies which will have dramatic global benefit • Distribute compelling content generated by teams

  8. Government Missions

  9. Are Private Missions Possible? • NASA-funded study indicates victory likely within 4 years • Expected cost between $30-100M • Seeking venture capital, sponsorship, in-kind contributions, wealthy individuals • Challenges • Fundraising • Power • Temperature swing • Daylight 253˚ F (123˚ C), • Shadow -387˚ F (-233˚ C) • Communications • 2.7 sec time delay • Bandwidth limited by power • Size limited by cost of launch vehicle

  10. Education • Online • Interactive learning opportunities for educators, students and parents • Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education • Engaging outside the classroom • BotBall robotics competition • National Science Teachers Association • Universities using prize as teaching tool • MIT • University of Michigan • University of Maryland • International Space University • University of Stuttgart • UK universities • Many others…

  11. Online Presence

  12. Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge • $2M in prizes provided by NASA’s Centennial Challenges program • Sponsored by Northrop Grumman Corp • Meant to stimulate the development of industrial capabilities that will assist in NASA’s return to the Moon. • Specifically, demands private teams build rockets similar to a “lunar ferry” capable of hopping between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon.

  13. Prize History • Announced May 5, 2006 • 4 teams register, 1 team flies in 2006 • 8 teams register, 1 team flies in 2007 • 9 teams register, 2 teams fly in 2008 • Teams devoted more than 60,000 person-hours and more than $6 million • Drove maturation of the regulatory process • Exceeded the most similar gov’t program in almost every category • DC-X: Two years, ~$95 M

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