Barcelona Moon Team
Encyclopedia
The Barcelona Moon Team, also called BMT, is a privately funded Catalan
team of aerospace
experts led by Xavier Claramunt. It was the first Spanish team to enter the Google Lunar X Prize competition
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based on the concept of tourism for extreme environments: Under the sea, polar ice and on orbit environments. There are five development efforts for this Moon 2.0 activity: Flight, Surface Operations, Rover, Selena and Calls.
Catalan people
The Catalans or Catalonians are the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia that form a historical nationality in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France are sometimes included in this definition...
team of aerospace
Aerospace
Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...
experts led by Xavier Claramunt. It was the first Spanish team to enter the Google Lunar X Prize competition
Google Lunar X Prize
The Google Lunar X PRIZE, abbreviated GLXP, sometimes referred to as Moon 2.0, is a space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. It was announced at the Wired Nextfest on 13 September 2007...
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History and development
The team was formed as a part of the enterprise Galactic SuiteGalactic Suite
Galactic Suite Design is an aerospace design company based in Barcelona, Spain. The company develops concepts, design and interiors of habitats and vehicles...
based on the concept of tourism for extreme environments: Under the sea, polar ice and on orbit environments. There are five development efforts for this Moon 2.0 activity: Flight, Surface Operations, Rover, Selena and Calls.
- Flight studies the use of a small launcher such as a FalconSpaceXSpace Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...
- Surface Operations studies the moon environment and conditions to overcome
- Rover is a six wheeled rover as a platform to explore the moon
- Selena is a scientific experiment consisting in a demonstration of to extract oxygen from the regolith
- Calls will be a private experiment carried on the mission as a payload.
Objectives
The main objective is to promote collaboration between the Spanish Aerospace industry, academia and the whole of society and so:- To promote the private funded industry in the space access
- To promote the development of manned structures to occupy the space
- To promote the technology transfer from the aerospace sector to other industrial sectors
- To promote the development of a regulation concerning the space
- To promote the organization, and events to explain this to the society