the latest Centennial Challenges budget news
RLV News has gone through the Administration's 2008 NASA Budget
Proposal and picked out the areas from this massive document related
to Centennial Challenges. The 2008 Centennial Challenges proposal is
for $4 million, or under 1/4000th of NASA's proposed budget (which in
turn is an invisible feather on the total 2008 Federal Budget
elephant). Looked at another way, it's a couple hours of Ares I/Orion
development. The document suggests that new challenges will be issued
in areas like Solar Sails, Micro Reentry Vehicles, and Lunar ATVs.
However, the Solar Sail challenge alone was originally envisioned to
be 2 prizes for 2 goals totaling $5 million (not much for an actual
space demonstration), so the challenges might be rolled out ... very
... slowly ...
Posted by Ray at 8:25 PM
Labels: Politics, space innovation prizes
2007 Lunar Lander Challenge registration opens
The X Prize has a news release on the opening of registration for the
2007 Lunar Lander Challenge competion. Spaceref has a post on the
release as does the X Prize Foundation. There are also rule changes
for this year allowing repairs to the vehicle after the first hop ...
as long as the repair materials are brought on the first hop, and not
counted as payload. Northrop Grumman, builder (in an earlier form) of
the Apollo Lunar Module, is the title sponsor for the event again. RLV
News also informs us about this news and is tracking the competitors.
Posted by Ray at 8:08 PM
Labels: events, Lunar Lander Challenge, space innovation prizes
Another suborbital ride
Personal Spaceflight has a post on the over-taxed suborbital space
ride prize winner (Brian Emmett) getting a second chance at reaching
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