Briefs: Investment Summit review; Seeking lunar sponsors; Odyssey Moon

Here is a review of the Space Investment Summit held on Thursday: Space race: Down-to-earth opportunities more likely to get VC funding - San Jose Mercury News - Dec.8.07
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Red Whittaker's lunar rover company will seek sponsorships to raise the 75 million dollars they need to launch in July 2009: Robotics Professor Pushing Ad Supported Moon Landing - Wired. The Google Lunar Prize is $20M but they expect to build a business around sales of the high definition video.
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More about the Odyssey Moon team: UK team bid for Google moon prize - BBC

Posted 12/08/07 | 10:12:45 by TopSpacer | Filed under: Space Prizes

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JAXA's SELENE has been returning stunning high definition video from lunar orbit: http://www.jaxa.jp/press/20...

Between their significant ISS laboratory assets and recent interplanetary exploration, I think Japan has an under-appreciated space program.

Hopefully a Japanese entrepreneur will leverage technology derived from the H-II Transfer Vehicle to provide space transportation to Bigelow facilities.

Posted by John Kavanagh at 12/09/07 20:39:15

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