Barcelona Moon Team is a Spanish team led by
Galactic Suite Design, which is participating in the
Google Lunar X Prize
The Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP), sometimes referred to as Moon 2.0,
was a 2007–2018 inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge called for privately funded teams to be the ...
.
History
Galactic Suite Design (GSD) is the lead company in a consortium of companies fielding the Barcelona Moon Team in the
Google Lunar X Prize
The Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP), sometimes referred to as Moon 2.0,
was a 2007–2018 inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge called for privately funded teams to be the ...
(GLXP) competition.
[ GSD does so through a filial company, Galactic Suite Moon Race. BMT is the official candidate to the GLXP.] The team is a multidisciplinary joint venture bringing together Spanish entrepreneurial, industrial and academic capabilities. The team also includes the Centre of Aerospace Technology in Barcelona ( CTAE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
The Technical University of Catalonia ( ca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, , es, link=no, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest engineering university in Catalonia, Spai ...
(UPC) or the international engineering advisory firm Altran. BMT wants to promote a widening involvement of private initiative in the development of space technology and industry, also including sectors such as exploration and tourism.
The Barcelona Moon Team GXLP mission was scheduled to launch aboard a Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
Long March 2C
The Long March 2C (LM-2C), also known as the Chang Zheng 2C (CZ-2C), is a Chinese orbital launch vehicle, part of the Long March 2 rocket family. Developed and manufactured by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), the Long Ma ...
in June 2015. The China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) was planned to be launching team Barcelona Moon in June 2015.
But later, the team withdrew from the competition.
References
External links
Official Site
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Google Lunar X Prize
Science and technology in Catalonia
Cancelled spacecraft