Team Puli is an official Google Lunar XPRIZE contestant, and concentrates on the development of an affordable lightweight planetary rover platform, with a close look on down-to-earth applications like landmine detection, and will catapult Hungary to the Moon. Pulis are revered for their extraordinary intelligence, obedience and playful temperament. Astrobotic was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in 2007, and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.īudapest based Puli Space Technologies is a dedicated team of Hungarian professionals and space enthusiasts, named after the Puli, a dog-breed long used by shepherds for the protection and guidance of livestock in Hungary. The company is also pursuing the Google Lunar XPRIZE with partner Carnegie Mellon University. The company has 10 deals in place for its first mission and dozens of customer negotiations for upcoming missions. Additionally, Astrobotic is a partner with NASA through a Space Act Agreement under the Lunar CATALYST program, and has 21 prior and ongoing NASA contracts. Astrobotic recently announced both DHL as their official logistics partner and a partnership with Airbus to provide technical support in the design of the Peregrine lander. Earlier this year, the company unveiled their newly designed Peregrine lander, which accommodates multiple customers on a single flight, offering lunar delivery at an industry-defining price of $1.2 Million per kilogram. “With this agreement, our upcoming mission will triple the number of nations that will have landed on the Moon, making this truly an international endeavor of historic proportions.”Īstrobotic Technology is a lunar logistics company that delivers payloads to the Moon for companies, governments, universities, nonprofits, and individuals. “We are very excited to welcome Team Puli to join us on our mission,” said Astrobotic CEO, John Thornton. "We are extremely proud to participate in this historical mission, and with this Moonshot I believe we shall offer another great example that Hungarian engineers and scientists can compete with anyone anywhere in the world." Tibor Pacher, Puli Space's founder and CEO. "To fly with Astrobotic to the Moon is a unique opportunity for our team to set another exceptional mark in the long success story of Hungarian scientific and technical achievements," explained Dr. The capsule will hold ceramic tablets containing archival imagery and texts of up to 5 million characters per tablet, readable with a 10x magnifier. With this payload reservation, Puli Space will send a unique time capsule for the MoM on the Moon project. This new partnership with Team Puli further extends Astrobotic’s mission of making the Moon accessible to the world by adding a seventh nation to be represented on their inaugural flight. The Hungarian team, Puli Space, joins fellow GLXP Teams HAKUTO from Japan, and AngelicvM from Chile, in reserving a ride to the surface of the Moon on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander with a “Memory of Mankind (MoM) on the Moon” time capsule and an option to add their rover. announced today at the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) Summit in Tel Aviv, Israel that they have signed an agreement to fly the first Hungarian payload to the Moon on Astrobotic’s upcoming first mission. Tel Aviv / Pittsburgh / Budapest– Astrobotic Technology, Inc. You can see the video below.Hungarian Company, Seventh Nation on Astrobotic’s Maiden Voyage to the Moon, is to Send a “Memory of Mankind” Time Capsule He says there were over 1 million applicants from basically "every single country" across the world.
THE MOON PROJECT UPDATE
On Thursday, Maezawa provided an update on some of the candidates whose videos have blown him away. But earlier this year, he changed the process and opened up spots to practically everyone, calling on budding lunar explorers to register for a ticket aboard the Starship and then produce videos on why they want to go to space.
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Maezawa had planned to invite artists onboard the Starship and venture with them on a circuit around Earth's only natural satellite. The mission has changed a lot since it was first announced in 2018. He intended the dearMoon project to be something like a civilian art project, but we haven't had much of an idea who he might bring along. Sometime in 2023, a billionaire Japanese entrepreneur and a crew of eight artists and entertainers are set to blast off inside a SpaceX Starship on a mission set to take them "further than any human has gone before." The mission, known as dearMoon, is spearheaded by Yusaku Maezawa, who has paid an undisclosed sum to achieve his dream of going to the moon.