The current mission for Earthrise Space is the Omega Envoy Project. This mission consists of building a rover to be sent to the moon to win the 30 million dollar Google Lunar X PRIZE. The technology being developed by Earthrise Space for the Omega Envoy Project is focused at creating the first commercial lunar services. After proving these technologies with the Google Lunar X PRIZE, Earthrise Space will begin to provide affordable transport services to the moon. Using a universal payload system being developed the lunar services will be open to all areas of interest. As the only student formed and led team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE we are keeping the design as simple as possible, but in true Earthrise Space fashion everything we do is towards one single mantra, “Advancing Humanity.”
We believe that any project, no matter how large, can be broken down into small attainable goals. We are trying to move a mountain here, but doing it one stone at a time.
We have two major focuses right now: the construction of our Lunar Lander Prototype with partner Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and the testing of our Rover 2.0 prototype. For the month of July, 2009 our Rover 2.0 will be at the Mars Society’s Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station at Devon Island near the North Pole with ESI advisor, Joe Palaia of 4Frontiers.. The Arctic Expedition is one of the most ambitious demonstrations of rover capabilities yet seen by any Google Lunar X PRIZE team. Follow our progress as we provide up to date blogs and tweets from the rover as well as video feeds from mission control here in Orlando, FL.

The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth

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