http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/f...in-20-million/
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Google's sponsering a new X Prize, and this one has its sights set a bit higher than suborbital. The new contest wants competitors to send a robotic rover to the moon and beam back a gigabyte of data -- including pictures and video -- of the trip. The rover also has to travel 1,312 feet across the surface of the moon.
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$20 million seems low for this, considering the original x-prize was $1 million, but getting into orbit is 60 to 70 times more energy required than the original x-prize suborbital target.
I figured the next x-prize would just be an orbital launch vehicle.