News Archive / Tagged: Google Lunar XPRIZE

• Israeli company eyes Moon landing in early 2019

  Tomasz NowakowskiJuly 14th, 2018

  SpaceIL has unveiled its plan to land an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon in early 2019. The company announced that the mission would be launched by a Falcon 9 rocket in December 2018.

• Lunar XPRIZE competition continuing without cash reward

  Collin SkocikMay 10th, 2018

  The Lunar XPRIZE, a competition among various teams to land a robot on the Moon, is proceeding even though Google is no longer sponsoring the project. As of April 5, 2018, it is operating as a non-cash competition.

• Astrobotic ready to become delivery service to the Moon

  Michael ColeMarch 19th, 2018

  PITTSBURGH, Pa. --  Not far from downtown Pittsburgh is a somewhat drab commercial area of nondescript brick and concrete buildings, dating back to the days of when steel machine companies ruled the town. Notably, the former site of Westinghouse, where the original air brake was developed. Today, no passersby would suspect that one of these buildings houses a lab for a small fleet of spacecraft and rovers designed to go to the Moon.