Lunar X PRIZE

​After a decade Google’s Lunar XPrize is set to end with no winner. An announcement from Google recently suggested the March 31st deadline would not be extended and a subsequent update from the XPrize team confirmed that no team will launch in time and the $30 million prize will remain unclaimed

​The private race to the moon just kicked up a notch with Moon Express revealing in detail its plan to begin commercially harvesting moon rocks by 2020. The company is set to become the first commercial presence on the moon sending back lunar samples & establishing a permanent lunar outpost.

Space startup Moon Express has signed a contract with Rocket Lab to help carry out three lunar missions starting in 2017. The agreement will see Rocket Lab provide launch services using its Electron rocket system.

The Google Lunar XPrize is set to wrap up with the first privately-funded spacecraft to land and explore the surface of the moon by the end of 2015. Five teams from around the world still have technology in the running to make the trip.

Moon Express has revealed the design of its MX-1 entry for the Google Lunar X Prize competition. Not a one-trick pony, the MX-1 is intended as the first of a series of robotic spacecraft that can carry out a multitude of tasks in Earth orbit as well as in deep space.

Interorbital Systems, a rocket and spacecraft construction company founded in 1996, is introducing the age of the Personal Satellite.

Spain is now officially represented in the Lunar X PRIZE, with the entry of Barcelona Moon Team.

Space - it's the final frontier of human exploration, a mysterious eternity of distance, all around us and yet so tantalizingly out of reach.

The X PRIXE Foundation has released details of the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30million competition to land a robotic craft on the Moon and send video, images and data back to the Earth.

September 17, 2007 The prize that saw the world's first private spaceship reach beyond the Earth's atmosphere in 2004 is headed for the moon. The X PRIZE Found