The Barcelona Moon Team attended last week the annual Google Lunar X PRIZE team summit. This year it was hosted in Mountain View, Caliornia, at NASA Ames and the SETI Institute (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), founded by the researcher Carl Sagan. The area also hosts the prestigious Stanford University and now the headquarters of many technology companies including Google, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, and so on.
Marc Zaballa, team associate leader, and Carlos Garcia, surface operations manage, shared with 25 of the competing teams, the status of the Barcelona-based team, which is recruiting several industrial companies of the Spanish aerospace sector, in addition to Atlran, UPC and CTAE. The goals of the conference were to learn about the progress made by other teams and to discuss each other’s objectives in the competition, the teams’ roles in the growth of the new space economy, to review the process and opportunities around education and outreach of the competition, and to collaborate with NASA on the requirements when visiting historical sites such as the Apollo missions.
The team also discussed areas of collaboration for mutual benefit with other teams, and with NASA, specially to coordinate scientific activities on the surface. Right now, a few days after the Team Summit it takes place the Lunar Science Forum which analyzes the latest results on the composition and structure of the Moon provided by the LCROSS mission.
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