DocumentCode
916928
Title
It´s Only Rocket Science
Author
Patel, Prachi
Volume
46
Issue
6
fYear
2009
fDate
6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
58
Lastpage
61
Abstract
For the Carnegie Mellon team vying for the Google Lunar X Prize, failure to launch - and land is not an option. The Google Lunar X Prize is a challenge announced by Google and the X Prize Foundation in September 2007, will give US $20 million to the first privately funded team whose robot lands on the Moon, travels 500 meters, and beams back photos and video. It all has to happen by 2012.
Keywords
lunar surface; mobile robots; planetary rovers; Carnegie Mellon team; Google Lunar X Prize; Moon; X Prize Foundation; lunar rover robot; Cameras; Costs; Educational robots; IEEE news; Laboratories; Moon; Portable computers; Recruitment; Rockets; Soil;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2009.4977615
Filename
4977615
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