Contest: The group that first sends a robot to the moon and it goes over 500 m. will win 20 mill. dollars, thats all. Official Agencys,like NASA or ESA, dont participate.
Why all this? Motivate the industry and the enterprises to develope new technology. They try to make a new revolution in the way of researching and creating new technologies, making more accesible and atractive to the companys the investisment on space techonlogy. The group who wins will pay more than 20 mill. for achieving the goal, but in the researching and developing proccess will generate more invetions and new technics, that will provide also a lot of patents and money. Its a kind of WEb. 2.0 revolution, where everybody has something to say. There is a lot to say about the benefits of having our presence on the moon. That will be a topic for future posts.
Lets check that on the web:
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Why do I comment that today? Maybe I will participate with my actual University, in Würzburg in Germany. We have made 4 groups: Orbit calculation and System Design, Landing,Robot, Management. Maybe the most complicated part, in order to find partner companys or any kind of external investments.
The leader is Prof.Schilling, who has participated in many spatial missions for the ESA, like the Huygens probe. If he is participating, and creating that group, he maybe is sure about his skills and possibilities. I will provide more information about our development in the future. At the moment we have made only the groups.
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