Google suspended a reward of $ 30 million for the Moon conquest

Google announced on September 13 that it will award the $ 30 million prize to the first private companies that can bring exploration robots safely to the Moon.

Accordingly, the participating teams must build a robot capable of moving at least 400m and sending images and videos to Earth after landing at the Moon. The team that completes this task at the end of 2012 will receive $ 20 million in bonuses.

The second prize worth 10 million USD will give teams the minimum requirements of the competition: landing on the Moon and transferring data to the Earth.

According to VNA, X-PRIZE chairman, Peter Diamandis, hopes groups from the US, China, Europe and Japan will participate in this exciting race and hopefully by 2010 or 2011, the first robots of this type will be launched to the Moon.

Due to a lack of budget, last spring, the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) canceled a plan to bring a robot to the Moon. NASA plans to bring astronauts to the Moon by 2020 to set up a research station here.

So far, only the Soviet Union (former) in the 70s of the last century has been able to emit robots that travel on the Moon's bumpy surface.

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