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Racing up

Does TeamIndus still have a shot at its moonshot?

One by one, as teams racing under the Google Lunar XPRIZE dropped, India’s TeamIndus stood tall. Now five months away from the lift off, it seems standing on shaky ground

26/07/17

Seema Singh

With just five months to go for the GLXP launch deadline, a countdown of sorts should have begun, starting with the battery of tests and going up to component arrivals

 

After all, it is every Indian’s moonshot—Har Indian ka moonshot. But a whole lot of mission progress details have been missing

Predictably, TeamIndus is racing against time, and, of course, money

The Fleet Commander, for the first time, admits he might miss the 28 December deadline and look for another launch window. Does that mean no GLXP for TeamIndus?

July evokes moon memories like no other time of the year. Forty-eight Julys ago, man landed on the moon, setting off a long race to decipher our planetary neighbour. And earlier this month, Moon Express, the private American company that is competing for the $20 million Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP), unveiled its lander and additional…

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