The European Lunar Exploration Association (Euroluna) is a Danish-Italian-Swiss team led by Palle Haastrup, 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 ...
Challenge.
The team
The members of the Euroluna team are:
*Palle Haastrup
*Søren Rasmussen
*Tor Foss Mortensen
*Sten Haastrup
*Erik Haastrup
*Mogens Rasmussen
*Signe Terkelsen
Lunar Rover
, EuroLuna was designing a lightweight solar-powered four-wheeled Luna Rover called ROMIT, which will be pared down to just 110 pounds by minimising
redundant systems.
[New teams join $30 million moon rover contest]
NBC News
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, 2008-12-16, accessed 2010-08-03.
References
Sources
News article in DanishEuroluna website
See also
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Lunar Rover
A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo Program's Lunar Roving Vehicle was driven on the Moon by members of three American crews, Apollo 15, 16, and 17. Other rov ...
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Lunokhod programme
Lunokhod ( rus, Луноход, p=lʊnɐˈxot, "Moonwalker") was a series of Soviet robotic lunar rovers designed to land on the Moon between 1969 and 1977. Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on an extraterrestria ...
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Google Lunar X Prize
Cancelled spacecraft