Friday, January 21, 2011

Move Over, Rover: Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Hopping Moon Landers

Next Giant Leap in Boulder, Colorado? a startup that's making robots that will land and hop around on the surfaces of other planets in order to gather data, detect resources valuable to humans, and more ? attained a $1 million grant from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, to advance their technology and pursue the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize in 2012, the companies revealed today. Draper is a non-profit in Cambridge, Massachusetts that develops advanced technology, and assists and invests in others' innovation for space, air, land and sea exploration. One of Next Giant Leap's team members, Seamus Tuohy (also Draper?s director of space systems) explained what NGL is working on and its potential uses...

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