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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Selenokhod Enters Google Lunar X Prize


The Selenokhod (former Googlokhod) Google Lunar X-Prize Team, shown at Russian TV channel "Doverie" [in Russian]. The Russians have the most experience with lunar robotic rovers generally. Selenokhod is association of Russian former and current aerospace industry engineers [more].

The Google Lunar X-Prize will award up tpo$30-million to the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth. Here is a video of some of the hardware being developed for the competition.

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