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Transcript of By: Blaze Sanders Commercial Space = “New Space” 10/15/2011.
Opportunities in Commercial Space and how African American
entrepreneurs can cross the ‘space divide.’
By: Blaze Sanders Commercial Space = “New Space”10/15/2011
Juxtopia® Urban Innovation and Cooperative Entrepreneurship
3rd Annual Space Entrepreneurship Forum on Capitol Hill
With cooperation from representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and representative Chaka Fattah
Rayburn House Building, Washington DC www.juxtopi.org/jurban/spaceforum/ Around September 15
JURBAN Google Lunar X-Prize
What? Why? How?
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a$30 million competition for
thefirst privately funded team to
send a robot to the moon, travel
500 meters and transmit HD video,
images and data back to the Earth.
To expose and significantly increase the science, technology,
engineering, math, and entrepreneurial (STEME)
proficiency of underserved and disadvantaged populations
through empirically researched interventions.
Plus it’s just awesome!!
Juxtopia a local Baltimore technology company is amassing $16 million worth of
funding , and providing professional leadership for the team.
• Swarm robotics & novel locomotion (no wheels)
• Augmented Reality mission control & public viewing• Airbag landing near Apollo 12 site• Advertising on the Moon (Moon pies, MJ moon walk shoes, ...)
Mission Architecture of the JURBAN Google Lunar X-Prize Team
Step 1 – Direct Launch
Step 2 – Airbag Landing
Step 3 – 500 m Transverse
Step 4 – HD Mooncast and thermal imaging
www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/jurban
From Warwick Mills, our airbag supplier
Community
Solar System Express
CEO – Blaze Sanders www.solarsystemexpress.com
“We are the people bringing Mars to
Earth”
Competition
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Space NASA
High Price
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