#2: Propulsion systemThe primary engine on the spacecraft is a liquid rocket engine with a thrust capability of 440 N for major maneuvers. It is accompanied by sixteen small 22 N thrusters for finer orbital maneuvers and directional control.
I believe the engines are from ISRO. The 440 N engine should be the LAM (Liquid Apogee Motor) and the 22 N altitude control engines should also be the ones that ISRO uses on most of its satellites needing self propulsion (GSAT, Mangalyaan to name a few).
Checked in with Team Indus regrading those GLXP rumors and they tell me they are "still very much part of the competition." No further comment tho on their contract with ISRO
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It is, so they are going on alone if they can find the money. So are several other teams. Moon Express, Astrobotic, PTScientists, probably SpaceIL. It will be GLXP without the G or the XP.
The GLXP was still a success, it mission was to create commercial lunar cargo lander companies. We now have 6 lander/rover companies, some very well funded.
Quote from: TrevorMonty on 01/23/2018 04:48 pmThe GLXP was still a success, it mission was to create commercial lunar cargo lander companies. We now have 6 lander/rover companies, some very well funded. How many will we have a year from now? The Ansari x-prize companies generally snuffed it immediately.
The Google Lunar X Prize competition, which has spent the past decade dangling a $20 million prize for the first privately financed venture to make it to the moon, came to a quiet end on Tuesday. Not with the ka-boom of a rocket launch or a winner beaming photos back from the lunar surface, but with a tweet and a statement.The organizers at the X Prize Foundation conceded that none of the five remaining entrants have a chance of getting off the ground by the deadline at the end of March.
