NASA to Purchase Industry Lunar Tech Data, Imagery
NASA wants to buy data from industry on lunar landing technology demonstrations and imagery. The agency is issuing a “Broad Agency Announcement” (BAA) for multiple small firm fixed price contracts with a total value of up to $30.1 million through 2012.
Privately funded entities, like those participating in the Google Lunar X-Prize, could sell NASA data and information “related to landing using a human mission profile; identification of hazards during landing; precision landing; and imagery and long-duration surface operations.”
Twenty-one teams are currently competing in the Google Lunar X-Prize competition, which has its own purse of $30 million for the first privately funded group to land a robot on the Moon, travel 500 meters, and return video, images and data back to Earth. One of those teams, Astrobotic, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off company, immediately said that it would take NASA up on the challenge.
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