Competition Information
Photo Credit [8]
X-Prize Information
The Xprize Foundation is a international organization that holds contests to expand our current technology farther than normal research. Winners receive a purse of millions of dollars if they are the first in their contest to complete the mission under all of the guidelines.
In the current mission that we, the Ontic Development Group, are participating in, the project is centered around returning to the moon, via a rover.
The guidelines [8] for this Xprize mission are as follows:
a $20 million Grand Prize is awarded to any team that can "soft" land a craft onto the moon that can "roam" for 500 meters and transmit a moon-cast back to the moon.
A second place prize of $5 million dollars also will be given to the next team to complete the mission.
Bonus prize: another $5 million dollar purse will be given b y completing other missions as roving over 5,000 meters, imaging the Apollo mission hardware, discovering any water / ice or surviving a lunar night.
The guidelines to the moon-cast are as follows:
-High resolution 360 paramedic photographs taken on the surface of the moon
- Self portraits of the rover taken while on the moon
-Near real time video showing the journey while on the moon
-High definition video
-Transmission of a cached set of data loaded before launch (1 GB size)