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The Launch Pad: "X-Files" at the Google Lunar X PRIZE!
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X-Files" at the Google Lunar X PRIZE! I had thought about relating a story involving a telescope, a frosty night and a painful injury as my first blog post, but the commentary in the blogosphere this week has raised a few questions and this seems like a good place to address them, even though they may not be as funny as the aforementioned story. First up, I was thrilled to learn from one commentator that I am part of some deep dark conspiracy. Fabulous! For example, this extends to insuring that any Team...
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The Launch Pad: MoonBots in the Media
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MoonBots in the Media. Over the past weekend, the 20 MoonBots finalists. Outreach work, and the media has taken notice. The following is just one such example. Team "Just Ducky" were featured on Fox News Twin Cities - check out the video below to see their robot in action. Pretty cool. It's also worth mentioning that Team "Dragonbots" was featured on CNN Chile. For a full 14 minutes! The video is not embeddable here, but you can click the image below to watch (note: video in Spanish! X PRIZE Space Links.
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The Launch Pad: NASA Centennial Challenge Updates: Sample Return, Nanosat, Green Flight, Tether, More
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NASA Centennial Challenge Updates: Sample Return, Nanosat, Green Flight, Tether, More. A lot has been happening related to NASA Centennial Challenges in the last few weeks, so here's an update that focuses mainly on them. Some teams are anxious to learn more about the rules and team agreement for the Sample Return Robot Challenge:. Sample Return Robot Challenge. As you can see, starting a major prize competition can be quite a challenge in itself. Team Phoenicia to hold 2nd Nanosat launcher seminar.
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Mapping Pluto and Charon | Cumbrian Sky
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Been to one of my talks? 124; Comments RSS. 1,116,695 hits. Mapping Pluto and Charon. Posted on July 29, 2015. Before we go any further, just take a moment to look at the title of this post again… “Mapping Pluto and Charon”… isn’t that crazy? But even better, many of the features shown on those maps have now been given (provisional) names by the New Horizons team. With many more names to follow. Overnight Pluto and Charon have gone from being just (just! Pluto Name Bank Proposal. 8220;Underworlds and Und...
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The Launch Pad: About the MTA..
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Before I joined the Google Lunar X PRIZE staff, I had heard a great deal about the Master Team Agreement (“MTA”). I’d read the online comments and the associated speculation. Now I’ve had a chance to get to know this document, I can provide a perspective for you. Before I get into some specifics, it’s worth addressing why we have an MTA. In a nutshell, it is to define what needs to be done to win the competition(s) and to provide a legal framework for that. In addition, since X PRIZE’s original agr...
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Sleep well, little one… | Cumbrian Sky
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Been to one of my talks? 124; Comments RSS. 1,116,462 hits. Sleep well, little one…. Posted on November 15, 2014. It’s coming up to 8am on Saturday morning, and I’m tapping away again after just 5 hours sleep. I could – should – have slept in, but I really wanted to get up and record the events of last night while they’re still (relatively) fresh in my mind. While I can do them justice. So, what happened? But I’m getting ahead of myself, letting my words and my memories run away with me. But with the lan...
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The Launch Pad: What are MoonBots Finalists Up To?!
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What are MoonBots Finalists Up To? As our teams prepare for their live final lunar science mission rounds, they have also been very busy over the last month working with kids from all over the world. We are extremely impressed with all of the great Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. STEM) outreach projects focused around the topic of MoonBots. We love to hear that this Google Lunar X PRIZE MINDSTORMS Challenge is reaching kids in so many fantastic ways! The Pink Team STEM Outreach Video. 07/17/11...
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Cumbrian Sky | Just another WordPress.com weblog | Page 2
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Been to one of my talks? 124; Comments RSS. 1,116,695 hits. Posted on June 20, 2016. I found a couple of previously-unseen close-up images of Pluto’s surface in last week’s NEW HORIZONS release, so cleaned them up, stitched the together, and this came out… amazing detail on the surface, and incredible to think that barely a year ago our best views of Pluto showed just a mottled ball…. 124; Leave a comment. Posted on June 17, 2016. 124; Leave a comment. Standing on a comet…. Posted on May 15, 2016. And wi...
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Pluto and Charon in close-up | Cumbrian Sky
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Been to one of my talks? 124; Comments RSS. 1,116,695 hits. Pluto and Charon in close-up. Posted on July 19, 2015. Here’s a view of part of the flatter, brighter region referred to so far as the “heart”, which has now, very fittingly, been christened (also informally for the moment) “Tombaugh Regio” in honour of Pluto’s discoverer… and to everyone’s surprise it shows a landscape very reminiscent of the icy polar terrain found on both Earth and Mars…. Laquo; Pluto and Charon in the spotlight. BBC’s ...
