Team Indus Moon rover

[karan21]

Year after year isro has been delaying he Chandrayaan 2 mission to 2012 to 2013 to 2014 and still we haven't seen any real work being done. Maybe this is the reason why. Team Indus is building a moon rover that is supposed to take sensors and equipment on moon and rover should cover a distance of atleast 500m. It is supposed to have lander and a rover. The competiton is being organied by Google and almost 30 teams are participating around the world. Isro is going to launch this in 2014. 2015 is the final deadline though.


Team Indus- 2012 Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Interview - YouTube

Team Indus GLXP Mission animation - YouTube

 

[karan21]

@BlueDot_in_Space+
what ya say on this??

 

[Abingdonboy]

I highly doubt ISRO has delayed Chandrayaan 2 purely for this project tbh, but the two missions my coincide nicely.


Reading up on this it seems that if Team Indus can tie up with ISRO they have the prize in the bag almost for sure.

 

[karan21]

I highly doubt ISRO has delayed Chandrayaan 2 purely for this project tbh, but the two missions my coincide nicely.


Reading up on this it seems that if Team Indus can tie up with ISRO they have the prize in the bag almost for sure.

They will be disqualified if they did that. The competition prohibits them to participate with any major space agency. This is solely their design and only thing ISRO can help is launching it in 2014.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Team Indus: Indian startup among 23 teams vying for Google Lunar X Prize to land on moon - Economic Times
I suppose you could say there a 2 Indian teams in the running (lol):

Of the 34 teams that registered, 23 remain active around the world. Many are superbly funded and staffed. The US-based Astrobotic, for instance, is based out of Carnegie Mellon University. Its lead, William Red Whittaker, is a research professor of robotics at the university and something of an authority in the field.

Moon Express, a team funded by India-born billionaire Naveen Jain, is based out of NASA Research Park and bought out another team altogether.

In comparison, Narayan's venture is modest. His team works out of a nondescript office building in Noida. Tea and samosas sourced from a local stall are served at lengthy tech review meetings that discuss threadbare mathematical equations on propulsion, trajectories, liquid fuel engines and space batteries.

But Team Indus has an advantage that no other team has. India's commercial space programme is the cheapest in the world. And scattered in the country's premier institutions and engineering companies lie the knowhow and ability to do everything Narayan needs to get done. If he can design a flawless mission, marshal support and sponsors and convince the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to let him hitch his lunar dreams and his rover on to its workhorse PSLV rocket, Narayan might well get a clear shot at the moon, and winning this surreal and prestigious race.

They will be disqualified if they did that. The competition prohibits them to participate with any major space agency. This is solely their design and only thing ISRO can help is launching it in 2014.

By "tie up" I mean get ISRO to launch the thing, not get their help.

 

[Daedalus]

Following Team Indus for a long time. Hope they bag the prize. Some of the other teams are highly funded.

Team Indus: Lone Indian in Google Lunar X Prize competition Rahul Narayan is fighting to raise resources - The Times of India

 

[kurup]

Details about India's moon rover

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

@BlueDot_in_Space+
what ya say on this??

I have not followed them, but occasionally visit their site. Their work looks simple but promising. I pray they be the first team to reach moon and stream live video.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Details about India's moon rover

This is in fact seperate to the TEAM INDUS project.

 

[kurup]

This is in fact seperate to the TEAM INDUS project.

I posted it to let the OP know both are different .