The interview with our team on The Space Show is now over. It went very well with good questions and comments from the audience. We even had a chance to discuss our plans and dreams beyond December 2012 after winning the Google Lunar X PRIZE :)

In case you missed the show, it will be rebroadcast on Monday, July 20th at 14:00 PDT (21:00 UTC). After the rebroadcast it will also be available for download, see The Space Show website for listening options.

Over the weekend (July 17-20) we will be attending the NewSpace 2009 Conference at NASA Ames Research Center. We will have a booth and Fred will also join the Google Lunar X PRIZE Panel together with Nicole Jordan from X PRIZE Foundation, Bob Richards from Odyssey Moon, Mike Joyce from Next Giant Leap, Kevin Myrick from SYNERGY MOON/IPV, and Randa Milliron SYNERGY MOON/IOS.

When NewSpace 2009 is over we move on to the NLSI Lunar Science Forum 2009 also held at NASA Ames. We will be presenting a poster here.

On July 20, AMSAT will mark the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing with a special event on the AO-51 amateur radio satellite. During evening passes in the U.S. and Europe, AO-51 will transmit a message commemorating the event. The message will be transmitted on the 435.300 MHz FM downlink and will contain a Robot 36 SSTV image as well as a voice message. It is often possible to receive AO-51 with a simple NFM capable receiver + rubber-ducky antenna and you can use this online prediction tool to find out when AO-51 passes will occur at your location.

PS: Congratulations to members of the Picorover group who
have just graduated in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia.