Talk:Google Lunar X Prize

message: 2013-03-26 17:24:17's web archive of http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/prize-details has the wording
 The Google Lunar X PRIZE
while 2013-05-11 17:06:01's, as well as the live version, has
 The Google Lunar XPRIZE
I'm renaming the article to match.
The copyright notice at the bottom of the webpage continues to be in the name of "X PRIZE Foundation".
--Mathieu ottawa (talk) 15:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:MOSTM supports the old title. Since your move was undiscussed I've reverted it, if you disagree please take it to WP:RM. --W. D. Graham 13:14, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool cool.--Mathieu ottawa (talk) 00:58, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  X PRIZE  vs. XPRIZE - article rename 

message: There seem to have been several announcements recently with a few of the better-funded GXLP teams putting down real money for launch deposits with various launch service providers, but not much in the article to reflect the more substantive launch plans.  Here are a couple:
* GXLP Update: Team Phoenicia Inks Deal for Space Traffic Control Services, 9 Dec 2013.  "Phoenicia-­1 Mission will be ground-­breaking. With Penn State’s Lunar Lion Google Lunar X-­‐PRIZE team and more"
* —Moon Express plans for a 2015 lunar "maiden technology demonstrator flight."
I've seen others.  But with real launches being scheduled/deposits-paid, it seems it may be time to take the article out of the speculative unicorns phase and begin to do more encyclopedic coverage of the few teams that are actually making a run for the GXLP prize.  N2e (talk) 17:25, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking about the same. I don't find the current state of the article very "unicorny". But there should be a new section with planned launches. And the milestones will hopefully also give a way to track the progress of the teams, or to separate those with an actual chance from those that are "just playing". Wild8oar (talk) 18:56, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is some article that gives an overview of which teams have announced launch plans: Google Lunar X Prize leader board. Wild8oar (talk) 06:17, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The coalescing plans of a few teams to actually plan 2015 launches is undercovered at present 

message: When exactly is the current deadline? It must be the beginning of 2018-01-01, but is that UTC, GMT, or some arbitrary local time?  The article should say, in a manner which allows for the possibility of a Leap Second in the case of UTC. 94.30.84.71 (talk) 16:31, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this has to be added to the article, and certainly not down to a second. I also think they would extend the deadline by one day if necessary. --mfb (talk) 11:48, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exact deadline? 

message: I'll leave this here, and include it in the article in the next days until someone else is faster. --mfb (talk) 01:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Launch contracts coming in: Part-time scientists 

message: The logo to Google and XPRIZE has changed, so the Google Lunar XPRIZE logo has, too.
I'm unable to find a vector for the logo, and on their site there is only white PNG on their site, and I don't know if that is Creative Commons.
Scarkrow03 • Talk 14:05, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo update 

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message: The third paragraph does not list SpaceIL as one of the four remaining competitors. Elsewhere in the article, it is listed as a still-viable contender. Please resolve this discrepancy. 199.46.249.149 (talk) 17:13, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  SpaceIL still in the contest? 

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message: They get a lot of government money. This is not a fair competition anymore.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E3:93FB:3D42:E855:8308:89DB:D45C (talk) 02:57, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hakuto is not privat anymore 

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replies: text: Thanks User:InternetArchiveBot.  N2e (talk) 02:17, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: The X PRIZE foundation will let the prize expire, unclaimed.  That is all pretty well explicated in the article now, with sources.  None of the five teams will make it by the deadline, as no launches are even scheduled before the deadline.
The teams are, a couple of days later, mostly saying they will continue some forward work, and sorta kinda might get to the moon with their landers later on.  We'll see.  N2e (talk) 01:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a bummer for team Hakuto, as their rover is finished and was shipped to India for integration to the PSLV. (Team Indus' rover is 80% finished so they can't complain). BatteryIncluded (talk) 02:38, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  X PRIZE foundation will let the prize expire, unclaimed 

message: This needs updating for the final status before the announcement by Google, when ISRO cancelled the launch contract, and all teams relying on ISRO exited the competition before it died. -- 70.52.11.217 (talk) 20:11, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: What I read in the related news is that the TeamIndus asked to dissolve the contract as they could not get a launch soon enough. The cancelation was amicable and left the window open for a future contract. -BatteryIncluded (talk) 22:47, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In either case, they didn't have a launch contract, so fell out of competition before the end announced by Google. -- 70.52.11.217 (talk) 01:36, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Cancelled ISRO

message: A couple of recent (2018) citations say that Astrobotic's lander is expected to carry rovers belonging to Teams Hakuto and AngelicVM, but Hakuto (ispace) has announced plans which don't include Astrobotic.  I suspect the Astrobotic citations are both based on https://www.astrobotic.com/manifest which hasn't been updated since 2015, and Astrobotic may not be carrying the AngelicVM lander either.  We'll see. Dan Bloch (talk) 00:40, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  not sure about Astrobotic 

message: The list of teams shows entries that were not actually registered for the competition. The total should be less than 20.  This article explains that "Shortly after the announcement of the complete roster of teams, an X Prize Foundation official noted that a total of thirty one teams entered a partial registration program by filing a "Letter of Intent" to compete; of these, twenty did indeed register or join other registered teams, while eleven ultimately did not register". The reference could be better than a blog, but it needs to be corrected. -Rowan Forest (talk) 21:32, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of teams is incorrect 

message: This article by space journalist Jeff Foust takes a good cross-team approach to provide a mid-2019 update on a number of the teams that had been part of the final group competing for the GXLP.  Many changing plans:  e.g., both SpaceIL and Team Indus, who had stated they would go to the Moon even without GXLP incentive have now announced they will not be doing that.  Here is the link.  N2e (talk) 11:05, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A good and useful updated source