Elastec/American Marine, an Illinois-based company managed to take home a $1 million prize coming from X Prize Foundation. They worked hard to improve an innovative oil skimmer which manages to cleanup water pollution much faster than its previous competitors. The machine demonstrated its ability to remove 2,500 ga... |
26 October 2011
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With monetary support from the Royal Dutch Shell company , the X Prize Foundation announced the creation of a new competition, this one focused on fostering innovation through exploration to improve life on Earth.
The effort will go on for three years, and will be supported by a $9-million grant from Shell. The X ... |
10 October 2011
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A private space race to put robots on the Moon received a new chief recently. The announcement was made yesterday, July 11, by the X-Prize Foundation. The Google Lunar X Prize will from now on be led by Alexandra Hall, who is a space science veteran.
The expert will act as the senior director of the initiative, w... |
12 July 2011
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James Cameron has just been selected to be included in the Board of Trustees governing the X Prize Foundation. This organization manages challenges such as the Google Lunar X PRIZE, which is a competition to put a robot on the Moon by 2012.
Cameron, better known as the Academy Award-winning director of the blockb... |
22 March 2011
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Officials at the X Prize Foundation, the same that is being joined by Google in supporting the Lunar X Prize competition, announce that they are seriously considering partnering up with other groups to create the Brain X Prize. The main goal of the competition would be to award the science team that manages to develo... |
25 October 2010
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The American space agency has just awarded nearly $30 million to six research teams that are also a part of the Google Lunar X Prize.NASA wants to purchase any potential data that the six groups might retrieve from the surface of the Moon, as part of the space challenge.In the competition, competing teams will have t... |
18 October 2010
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Engineers and experts with 21 teams are gathering this week on the Isle of Man, to take part at the Google Lunar X Prize Summit, a discussion with all those involved in the multi-million-dollar effort.The main goal of this competition is to land an autonomous, private, home-made robot on the surface of the Moon,... |
5 October 2010
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The "Mystery Team," which enrolled in Google's Lunar X Prize competition more than one year ago, finally revealed its identity, during a conference held at NASA Ames Research Center on Wednesday. The company, named Next Giant Leap, consists of members from the aerospace, academic and business communities, and al... |
19 December 2008
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