The Google Lunar XPRIZE

Currently 21 teams are competing in a contest involving some tough engineering and 30 million dollars

They have to:

  • Get a lander and rover to the moon (expensive part)
  • Go 500 meters on the moon
  • Take video and send it home

Sounds like a short list when you write it like that, but it's literally rocket science. And robotics. And communications. And pretty much the coolest thing going on in the world right now!

Teams with crafts of some type announced:

Team Craft Name Craft Type Status
Odyssey Moon MoonOne(M-1) rover development
Astrobotic Artemis Lander lander development
Astrobotic Red Rover rover development
Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association HAAS orbiter development
Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association ELE rover development
Euroluna ROMIT rover development
SELENE LuRoCa 1 rocket car development
Open Luna Foundation c-rove rover development

Teams with the latest news: