月球快遞
外观
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月球快遞 | |
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公司類型 | 私人 |
創辦人 | Robert D. Richards、Naveen Jain、Barney Pell ![]() |
代表人物 | 杰恩(Naveen Jain) |
總部 | 美國加州 |
产业 | 月球採擴 |
网站 | https://moonexpress.com/ ![]() |
月球快遞(Moon Express)是一間美國私人公司,由一群矽谷太空企業家所成立,以贏得Google月球X大獎,挖掘月球自然資源,獲得經濟價值為目標[1]。
歷史
[编辑]2010年8月,杰恩(Naveen Jain)[2] 、巴尼·佩爾和羅伯特·理查茲共同創立月球快遞[3] ,總部位於加州山景城,計劃推出商業用月球機器運輸和開採月球資源[4],包括稀土元素鈮,釔和鏑[1][5]。
2016年6月,美國聯邦航空管理局批准該公司在2017年運送商業太空船至月球[6][7]。
參考
[编辑]- ^ 1.0 1.1 Hennigan, W.J. MoonEx aims to scour Moon for rare materials. Los Angeles Times. 2011-08-20 [2011-04-10]. (原始内容存档于2019-10-17).
MoonEx's machines are designed to look for materials that are scarce on Earth but found in everything from a Toyota Prius car battery to guidance systems on cruise missiles. ... The company is among several teams hoping to someday win the Google Lunar X Prize competition, a $30-million race to the Moon in which a privately-funded team must successfully place a robot on the Moon's surface and have it explore at least 1/3 of a mile. It also must transmit high definition video and images back to Earth before 2016. ... should be ready to land on the lunar surface by 2013.
- ^ Caulfield, Brian. Naveen Jain: 'Think Of The Moon As Just Another Continent'. Forbes. [August 16, 2011]. (原始内容存档于2020-10-25).
- ^ Moon Express Announces First Successful Flight Test of Lunar Lander System Developed With NASA Partnership. Moon Express. [August 16, 2011].[失效連結]
- ^ Knafo, Saki. The New Space Biz: Companies Seek Cash In The Cosmos. Huffington Post. July 22, 2011 [August 16, 2011]. (原始内容存档于2017-04-22).
- ^ Moving the heaven to get some rare earth. Chennai, India: The Hindu. June 2, 2011 [June 7, 2011]. (原始内容存档于2011-06-07).
- ^ Pasztor, Andy. U.S. Set to Approve Moon Mission by Commercial Space Venture. The Wall Street Journal. June 5, 2016 [June 6, 2016]. (原始内容存档于2020-11-08).
- ^ Florida Company Gets Approval to Put Robotic Lander on Moon. The New York Times. 4 August 2016 [2016-08-04]. (原始内容存档于2020-11-19).