Lunar X-Prize Competition
The agency has committed itself as a competitor in the Google Lunar X-Prize. ARCA, the first European Union team to register for the competition, had a unique approach to completing their objective. The project is labeled "HAAS-ELE" and consists of a (high altitude) balloon-launch for a three-stage rocket. The new approach consists of using a supersonic rocket plane to get the HAAS II and its payload to 16 km before launch.
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