Only University Contestant For The Google Lunar XPRIZE
Penn State's Lunar Lion team, the only university-led team in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition, has gone live with a crowdfunding campaign on RocketHub. The goal: to raise $406,536 toward the design and build of a prototype of its Lunar Lion moon lander that will land on the Moon by December 2015, the deadline for Google's Lunar XPRIZE.
Rosetta Spacecraft Makes Contact After 31 Dormant Months
It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as ESA heard from its distant spacecraft for the first time in 31 months. Rosetta is chasing down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will become the first space mission to rendezvous with a comet, the first to attempt a landing on a comet’s surface, and the first to follow a comet as it swings around the Sun.
RFPs For Joint Innovation Projects Due February 28, 2014
This month, Space Florida and MATIMOP (Israel’s industrial center for research and development), on behalf of the Israeli Chief Scientist Office, issued a joint Request For Proposals (RFP) for research and development projects sponsored by companies in both states.
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