Barcelona Moon Team Signs Contract with Chinese Launcher to Send Rover to the Moon in June 2014
Barcelona Moon Team will be the first among 25 teams worldwide to attempt winning the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE The Barcelona-based company, Galactic Suite, leading the industrial conglomerate, Barcelona Moon Team, announced it has signed a launch service contract for a Chinese rocket that will carry the Spanish robot to the Moon in […]
Barcelona Moon Team tests OBDH
Barcelona Moon Team members from the University of Alcalá, in Madrid, where presenting yesterday the status of the OBDH designs and performed a demonstration of the system at the National Institute of Aerospace Technology INTA facilites. The core team also met in a new plenary meeting before the summer break.
Barcelona Moon Team cartoon edition
The first cartoon produced in cooperation with the Barcelona Moon Team is already under edition. The cartoon is produced by the National Television of Catalonia for the popular children program “Una mà de contes”. The cartoon explains the dream of a child to go to the Moon and the idea of his father to write […]
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: participación española
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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 […]
