...
TO THE MOON AND BEYOND
image by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeW5O6GGOtM|]]
HAKUTO is the only team from Japan competing
Eighteen teams remain active, out of 33 starters,
in the
"Google Lunar XPRIZE," an international contest
quest
to
achieve the first landing of a privately operated craft on the surface of the moon. To
win the
contest, one of
$30 million Google Lunar X-Prize. The challenge is to be
the
18 competing teams must
first private spacecraft to
land
their craft safely
on the
lunar surface before traveling at least
Moon, travel
500 m and
sending back
make
two
"Mooncasts"
transmissions
to Earth,
...
of 2015.
HAKUTO, visit
The teams have various depths of expertise and support, including
the
Israeli SpaceIL
team
blog on
which received a $16 million dollar donation from Sheldon Adelson,
the
"Google Lunar XPRIZE" website (www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/hakuto/blog/).
“Hakuto” is based on
Las Vegas casino tycoon who usually uses his billions to influence presidential candidates. Perhaps the most clever team promotion comes from the Japanese [[www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/hakuto/blog/|HAKUTO]] team that produced the video in today's LPOD. The name Hakuto relates to
a Japanese
...
on the
moon.
Moon. The country's government lunar program, Kaguya, is also named after a traditional folktale. Perhaps the US use of descriptor names (Ranger, Orbiter and Surveyor) and a Roman mythology name for our premier lunar exploration program, Apollo, reflects a lack of a national
Chuck Wood
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