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Chinese firm to send Spanish robot to moon
Friday August 17, 2012 12:34:31 PM,
EFE
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Barcelona: China Great Wall Industry Corporation
in June 2014 will launch the Spanish robot that is competing in
the Google Lunar X Prize contest to the moon.
The agreement for the space shot was finalized in Paris between
the leadership of CGWIC and the Galactic Suite company, which
heads the Spanish team.
The launch will be made with a Long March 2C rocket.
The rocket will carry the Spanish module that, once it detaches
and is moonbound, will make course corrections and brake to insert
itself into lunar orbit, then touch down on the lunar surface to
begin undertaking the tasks included in the contest.
The competition challenges participants to create a robot that can
move over the lunar surface and send live images back to Earth
before December 2015.
The probe must be able to travel 500 meters over the lunar
surface, send data, high resolution images and video, survive for
one lunar night (14.5 days), locate the remains of earlier
missions, like Apollo or Viking, and detect water.
Barcelona Moon Team is the only team based in Spain that is
participating in the Google Lunar X Prize, which has attracted the
participation of private companies and technological centers from
around the world.
The project is headed by Galactic Suite, a private space tourism
company, and by ALTRAN, an international consulting firm
specializing in technology and innovation.
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