Puli Space Technologies

Puli Space Technologies (named after the puli, a small Hungarian dog breed) is a Hungarian company established by individuals in June 2010 in order to take part in Google Lunar X Prize Challenge and other competitions, and further to facilitate development of space industry in Hungary, to promote scientific thinking and encourage students to choose scientific careers.[1]

Puli Space Technologies
Private
Industryspace industry
Founded2010
HeadquartersHungary
Key people
Dr. Tibor Pacher CEO, founder
Pál Gábor Vizi CSO, founder
Websitewww.PuliSpace.com

Google Lunar X Prize
Main article: Google Lunar X Prize
Official button of Team Puli

By the end of August 2010, the Team finished a "Letter of Intent",[2] and by October 2010 the fundraising started. On 11 January 2011 the team announced it transferred the registration fee.[3] The registration (together with the last eight teams) was announced on 17 February 2011.[4]

Puli spacecraft

The Puli spacecraft was planned to be finished by 2014. It was planned to be launched by a commercial carrier rocket, and to reach the Moon on its own.

In the team's early concept traveling on the lunar surface was planned to be achieved by changing the spherical lander's center of mass, making it roll. Later they redesigned the rover to run on four "wheg" (wheel of legs) structures. During 2012 the second, bigger rover of that concept (Iteration 2) was constructed and underwent running tests.

gollark: This is an excellent RFC.
gollark: Unicode has barely begun providing code points for all of the various emojis currently in use, and it is likely that more emojis will be created in the future. For example, there are still missing emoji symbols for most types of food and drink, the flags of each town and city on Earth, all human sporting and leisure activities including all local and national sports teams and players, and every plant and animal species and gender.
gollark: I mean, specific emoji fonts, sure.
gollark: There's the avian carrier QoS RFC already, so I suppose there's precedent for extensions.
gollark: > IOB will be the new buzz wordYESWE NEED APIARY CARRIERS AND A BUZZWORD PUN

See also

References
  1. Our Mission Archived 2012-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Puli to the Moon!
  3. Total registration fee transferred
  4. "Final Team Roster Announced!". X PRIZE Foundation. Retrieved 2011-01-17.
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