Social media giants, Google has announced the names of five finalists
who will embark on a trip to the moon.
On Tuesday, Google announced that five competitors have signed launch contracts that allows them to launch to the moon by the end of 2017.
In 2007, Google launched the Lunar XPrize, a competition that doles out $30 million in prizes to the first privately funded teams to land a robot on the moon.
The competition will pit five teams against each other in a race to the moon, each offering a unique method to space exploration.
Among the five teams are Hakuto, a Japanese team with a pair of rovers; Moon Express, an American team that wants to collect moon samples for scientific study, signed a three-launch contract with Rocket Lab for 2020; SpaceIL, an Israel-based nonprofit is developing novel craft that explores the moon by taking big hops instead of driving around, will join a future SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch; Synergy Moon, an international team, has partnered with Interorbital Systems for launch; and Team Indus, an Indian team that will ride with the Indian Space Research Organization’s vehicle.
The competition ends on December 31 and the remaining competitors must launch their moon rovers prior to the deadline in order to remain eligible to emerge winners of the competition.
Sources: by Ripples Nigeria.
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