Barcelona Moon Team congratulates China in its historical flight
Barcelona Moon Team wishes to congratulate the Chinese astronauts and scientists of the Space Institutes in its historical flight this week. The Shenzhou-9 mission posted a series of firsts: the first manned automatic and manual dockings; the first long-duration spaceflight; and the first crew to live aboard a permanently orbiting module, Tiangong-1. The astronauts, including […]
Barcelona Moon Team attends ESA meeting at ESTEC (2)
Barcelona Moon Team and other two European teams (Team Italia and White Label Space) attended last Friday June 22nd to the meeting organized at ESTEC in Noordwijk in Holland. ESA’s representatives included Andrés Gálvez, ESA General Studies Programme; Berengère Houdou, ESA Lunar Lander Project, HSO-IL; David Perigo, ESA Mechanical Engineering Dept.,TEC-M; José Longo, ESA ESA […]
Barcelona Moon Team attends ESA meeting at ESTEC
Barcelona Moon Team will attend next Friday June 22nd to the meeting organized at ESTEC in Holland to discuss potential interest of the European Space Agency on the Google Lunar X PRIZE European competitors. The meeting is a joint initiative of ESA with HE Space Operations and with the X Prize Foundation and the Barcelona […]
Barcelona Moon Team holds its third Plenary Meeting in Madrid
Barcelona Moon Team held its third plenary meeting last Wednesday. All the companies gathered at the INTA facilities in Torrejon de Ardoz (Madrid) under the roaring engines of the fighters based there. The team reviewed the recent news from China where negotiations are going on to close a Launch Service Contract within weeks. The leading […]
Barcelona Moon Team completes a new trip to China
Barcelona Moon Team has completed a new trip to China where it held meetings with China Great Wall Industry Corporation about the team’s launcher and some technical cooperation between the Chinese Institutes and the Spanish Consortium. The BMT delegation also met with the Chinese sponsors that see in the competition a good opportunity to get […]
Barcelona Moon Team congratulates Space X in its successful Dragon launch
Barcelona Moon Team and its leader Galactic Suite, congratulates Space X for its successful launch of the Falcon 9 carrying the Dragon capsule to the ISS. This is a cornerstone an expanded role for the private sector in space, such as the Google Lunar X PRIZE itself, promoting new low cost methods for private space […]
Barcelona Moon Team prepares for the annual Team Summit in Washington
Barcelona Moon Team is preparing to attend to this year Team Summit meeting in Washington DC from May 28th to 31st. One more time, the teams meet to explain their status on the competition and exchange information and proposals between them. This year Washington DC has been selected because of the Global Space Exploration Conference […]
Barcelona Moon Team opens its lander to other teams rovers
Barcelona Moon Team lander will have 25 kilog rams of extra payload divided in several slots. Between two to four rovers can be integrated below the main lander’s platform, around the legs. The taxi fare for teams will be 800KEuros per kilogram of rover, e.g. 8 kg rover will cost the competitor just EUR 6,4 […]
Barcelona Moon Team offers cargo to other team’s rovers
Barcelona Moon Team is offering flight opportunities in its lander. The team has extra volume and kilograms to offer to teams that were able to develop a lunar rover but have difficulties in completing other necessary phases of the mission. The team plans to land 30kg of payload on the lunar surface besides its lunar […]
Barcelona Moon Team at Barcelona Central University
Barcelona Moon Team held a conference last Wednesday at the Magna Aula in the Central University of Barcelona, the oldest within the city’s universities. The conference was framed within the open doors day for high school students. On that day, the students can get close to the different possibilities they may chose in a close […]
Barcelona Moon Team meets the Spanish General Direction of Innovation
Barcelona Moon Team explained last week its project to the General Direction of Innovation within the Spanish Ministry of Economics. The meeting was held in Madrid to update the Ministry about the recent incorporations to the team and the relations with China Great Wall Industry Corporation. The Ministry’s representatives were delighted about the good news […]
Barcelona Moon Team offers Marketing opportunities
Barcelona Moon Team offers amazing marketing opportunities for sponsors. The team plans to land 30kg of payload on the Moon by mid 2014. Most of this mass will be scientific dedicated payload, but there is still space available for commercial payloads for companies that wish to take part on this amazing adventure and be there. […]
