Moon Express Google Moon contest the most alternative participants

Get the Google Lunar XPrize award’s standards seems fairly straightforward: to land on the Moon, walk 500 m, and all the way back to the HD screen. Most of the participants came up with a way to solve this problem, is about to send a Rover to the Moon’s surface, then let the distance car driving game, Dodge met stone and other objects along the way.

Nevertheless, Moon Express team in mountain view, California came up with a very innovative way. If everything goes as planned, the team is a soft landing on the lunar surface by the Moon, with HD camera to look around, and then take off again, fell from the first site where at least 500 meters to complete the challenge, if there were no team challenges, they will be able to take home $ 20 million Grand Prize.

In many ways, the method needed to greatly simplify the process of things. Rover is always going to stick, fall apart or fail to correct landing problems. Designed and built from scratch and a lunar vehicle has not been easy. “No Moon” is not the problem, and weight can also be substantially reduced.

However, this approach also faces some complex challenges. At least in case landing are controlled throughout the journey of the riskiest and most challenging places. Not only the lander precisely slowing to a specific speed, and to accurately maintain a specific trajectory, and must scan the terrain below, looking for a good landing site. And Moon Express team also wants to made it two times.

In order to explore the Moon Express whether the team has the conditions for success, foreign media CNET paid a visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Moon Express team is here to test its MTV-1X Lander.

MTV-1X is the ultimate MX-1 the lander prototype. MX-1 by a rather large rocket launched into orbit, then flying solo for about 240,000 miles arrive on the Moon, orbited the Moon several times before it landed.

Moon Express team’s approach is interesting, not only because they did not use Rover, but also because the MX-1 is basically a flying fuel tank. The structure of MX-1 is the body with the necessary propulsion, solar panels, cameras and other additional devices.

Will it work in MX-1 the first step is to conduct a series of thruster test, clean and carefully filled with hydrogen peroxide to the lander, and ensure the correct advance. At first, people used cable fully lived the lander, then enter the line testing, you can use the powered flight, while securely attached on a device that is designed to keep the lander does not crash.

Moon Express team also plans to look for a new test point in the 36th before space launch complex (according to United States NASA term is SLC-36). Moon Express in SLC-36, the team plans to spend $ 500,000, will be its ultimate development as a future lunar base. The include construction for Lander test site, engine ignition and staff offices.

Now the team’s target is the Moon and became the first to log on to the Moon and back Google Lunar XPrize private team awards. They still have a long way to go.

via cnet

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