Competitors
Registration in the Google Lunar X Prize closed as of December 31, 2010. The complete roster of teams was announced on 17 February 2011. There are 25 officially registered Google Lunar X Prize teams involved in the competition (not including teams that have left the competition or merged into other teams):
| Team
Number |
Country | Team Name | Craft Name | Craft Type | Craft Status | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | US | Odyssey Moon
now known as SpaceIL |
MoonOne (M-1) | lander | Merged with SpaceIL | |
| 02 | US | Astrobotic Technology | Griffin | lander | development | |
| Red Rover | rover | development | ||||
| 03 | Italy | Team Italia | rover | development | ||
| 04 | US | Next Giant Leap | Acquired by Moon Express | |||
| 05 | International | Team FREDNET | To be named | Lander | development | |
| To be named | Rover | development | ||||
| 06 | Romania | ARCA | HAAS | lunar orbiter | development | |
| ELE | spherical rover | development | ||||
| 07 | US | Moon Express | MoonEx-1 | rover | development | |
| 08 | US | STELLAR | Stellar Eagle | rover | development | |
| 09 | US | JURBAN | JOHLT | development | ||
| 10 | US | Independence-X | ILR-1 | rover | development | |
| 11 | US | Omega Envoy
Teaming with Angelicvm |
To be named | lander | development | |
| Sagan | rover | development | ||||
| 12 | International | Team Synergy Moon | Tesla | rover | development | |
| 13 | Europe | Euroluna | ROMIT | development | ||
| 14 | International | Team SELENE | RoverX | wheg robot | withdrawn | |
| 15 | Netherlands | White Label Space | To be named | lander | development | |
| To be named | rover | development | ||||
| 16 | Germany | Part-Time-Scientists | Asimov Jr. | rover | development | |
| 17 | Germany | C-Base Open Moon | c-rove | rover | withdrawn | |
| 18 | Russia | Selenokhod | development | |||
| 19 | Spain | Barcelona Moon Team | development | |||
| 20 | Mystical Moon, a 'mystery team' | withdrawn | ||||
| 21 | US | Rocket City Space Pioneers | Acquired by Moon Express | |||
| 22 | Israel | Team Space IL | Sparrow | nano-ship | development | |
| 23 | Hungary | Puli Space Technologies | development | |||
| 24 | Brazil | Team SpaceMETA | development | |||
| 25 | Canada | Team Plan B | Plan B | development | ||
| 26 | US | Penn State Lunar Lion Team | Lunar Lion | development | ||
| 27 | Chile | Angelicum Chile
Teaming with Omega Envoy |
Dandelion | rover | development | |
| 28 | India | Team Indus | development | |||
| 29 | US | Team Phoenicia | Storming the
High Heavens |
lander | development | |
| 30 | US | SCSG | withdrawn | |||
| 31 | US | Micro-Space | Crusader LL | lander | withdrawn | |
| 32 | US | Quantum3 | withdrawn | |||
| 33 | Lunatrex | withdrawn | ||||
| 34 | US | Advaeros | withdrawn |
Shortly after the announcement of the complete roster of teams, an X Prize Foundation official noted that a total of thirty one teams entered a partial registration program by filing a "Letter of Intent" to compete; of these, twenty did indeed register or join other registered teams, while eleven ultimately did not register.
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