The Google Lunar X PRIZE is igniting a new era of lunar exploration by offering the largest international incentive prize of all time. A total of $30 million in prizes are available to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon and have that robot travel 500 meters over the lunar surface and send images and data back to the Earth. Teams must be at least 90% privately funded, though commercially reasonable sales to government customers are allowed without limit.
More information about the prize requirements, purse sizes, and deadlines can be found by clicking “Rules and Registration” below.
Moon 2.0 is here. This video gives a brief overview of what inspired the prize, what teams have to do to win, and why the Google Lunar X PRIZE is important to humanity.
Interested in exactly what it takes to win? Find out in the official rules.
Who are the competitors in the Google Lunar X PRIZE? Get to know them by following their blogs, or participating in forum discussions.