クラウドファンディング・イン・ジャパンーー日本発！民間から宇宙へ。月面に夢を打ち上げるプロジェクト
ピーター・ディアマンディスが設立した民間発の宇宙開発を促進・援助する財団、『X Prize Foundation』。X Prize FoundationにはGoogleを立ち上げたラリー・ページ、セルゲイ・ブリン、マイクロソフトのビル・ゲイツのビル&メリンダ財団、Amazon.comのジェフ・ベゾス、ヴァージンのリチャード・ブランソンなど、インターネットビジネスの”成功者”が数多く関わっている。
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- Posted at 28 Jan 2013 at 18:15
'X Prize Foundation', a foundation established by Peter H. Diamandis with the aim of developing and supporting space exploitation. Many of 'the top of the heap winners' of Internet business including Bill Gate's Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Amazon.com's Jeffrey Bezos, Virgin's Richard Branson are involved in the project.
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- Posted at 28 Jan 2013 at 18:23
Dr. Peter Diamandis founded a private organization called X Prize Foundation to facilitate and support space development.The X Prize Foundation has been supported by many successful people in the Internet business, such as Goggle’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation established by Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, and Virgin’s Richard Branson.
そのX Prize Foundationが運営し、Googleがスポンサーとなっているコンテストが、『Google Lunar X Prize』である。Google Lunar X Prizeは、2007年に開始された「民間が開発した無人探査機で月面を探査し、規定の条件をクリアしたチームに賞金が与えられる」という宇宙開発コンテストである。
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- Posted at 28 Jan 2013 at 18:23
'Google Lunar X Prize' is a contest which Prize Foundation hosts and Google sponsors. Google Lunar X Prize is a space probe contest started in 2007 in which the participants explore the moon surface by a robot craft developped in private companies and teams who clear the established condition are awarded.
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- Posted at 28 Jan 2013 at 18:39
Run by the X Prize Foundation and sponsored by Google is a competition called “Google Lunar X Prize.” It is a competition for space development, started in 2007, in which private companies launch their privately-developed unman space probes into the surface of the Moon and get rewarded with prize money when they clear certain criteria.
このコンテストに日本から参加しているのが『White Label Space』。月面ローバー（探査車）を日本の民間組織において独自に開発しているチームだ。
White Label Space（WLSJ）はローバーの小型化を目指して開発を進めており、小型ローバーのプロトタイプの製作費および一部の実験費を調達するためCampfireで資金調達を実施。
¥2,000,000に設定された目標金額に対し、¥2,301,520を調達してプロジェクトは2012/12/04にSUCCESSした。
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- Posted at 28 Jan 2013 at 18:37
The team that participate in this contest from Japan is 'White Label Space'. The team is developping its own Moon surface rover(robot craft) in a Japanese private organization.
White Label Space（WLSJ）is developping the Monn rover looking to reduce its size. It raised the funds to build prototype small sized rover and put it to the tests.
The team sees a success of the project in December 4, 2012, raising ¥2,301,520 toward the target amount ¥2,000,000.
White Label Space（WLSJ）is developping the Monn rover looking to reduce its size. It raised the funds to build prototype small sized rover and put it to the tests.
The team sees a success of the project in December 4, 2012, raising ¥2,301,520 toward the target amount ¥2,000,000.
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- Posted at 28 Jan 2013 at 19:07
One of participating companies in this competition is a Japanese company named White Label Space. This private company independently develops Moon rovers (probes) in Japan.
Aiming to pursue the development for downsizing rovers, White Label Space (WLSJ) carried out fundraising campaign on the Campfire site, in order to raise the production cost for its prototype and a part of experiment costs.
They set their goal at ¥2,000,000 yen, and successfully gathered ¥2,301,520 by December 4, 2012.
Aiming to pursue the development for downsizing rovers, White Label Space (WLSJ) carried out fundraising campaign on the Campfire site, in order to raise the production cost for its prototype and a part of experiment costs.
They set their goal at ¥2,000,000 yen, and successfully gathered ¥2,301,520 by December 4, 2012.
