BMT GLXP Barcelona Moon Team @ Google Lunar X PRIZE

Outreach

PR008 Press Brochure ENG

Date: 2013-01-21 Type: Outreach Reference: BMT-Press_Brochure-v08-ENG Status: Version: Issue 1 Rev8

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0. OVERVIEW 4 1. OBJECTIVE: THE MOON AS A SOURCE FOR ENERGY SOLUTIONS. 4 2. THE VISION: TO GIVE IMPULSE TO AN EMERGENT SECTOR WITH A HIGH VALUE ADDED. 6 3. GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE: THE OPORTUNITY 7 4. BARCELONA MOON TEAM: THE CHALLENGE 8 4.1. OVERVIEW 8 4.2. LEADERSHIP 9 4.3. TEAM 9 4.3.1. Xavier Claramunt 9 4.3.2. Marc Zaballa 9 4.3.3. Carlos García 9 4.3.4. Juan de Dalmau 10 4.3.5. Ed Chester 10 4.3.6. Alfonso Martínez 10 4.3.7. Josep Amat 10 4.3.8. Ignasi Casanova 11 4.3.9. Pablo Colmenarejo 11 4.3.10. Alfonso Martínez 11 4.3.11. Alfonso Martínez 11 4.3.12. Rafael Harillo 11 4.4. FOUNDATION FOR SPACE AND LUNAR EXPLORATION (FEEL) 12 4.5. PARTNERS 13 4.5.1. Galactic Suite 13 4.5.2. Center of Aerospace Technology (CTAE) 13 4.5.3. Altran Technologies 13 4.5.4. Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) 13 4.5.5. GMV 14 4.5.6. EADS CASA ESPACIO 14 4.5.7. THALES ALENIA SPACE España 15 4.5.8. INTA 15 4.5.9. Stardust Consulting 15 4.6. GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT 15 5. ACTIVITIES 16 5.1. OVERVIEW 16 5.2. FLIGHT 16 5.3. SURFACE OPERATIONS 16 5.4. ROVER 18 5.4. SELENA 18 5.5. PLANETARY PROTECTION 18 5.6. CALLS 19 6. SPONSORS 20 6.1. PREMIUM 20 6.2. GOLD 20

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6.3. COLLABORATORS 20 6.4. OFFICIAL SUPPLIERS 20 7. SERVICES 20 7.1. HARDWARE AND SERVICES SALES. 20 7.2. PATENTS/SPIN OFFS 21 8. OUTREACH 21 8.1. PROGRAMS 21 8.1.1. Web and Social Networks 21 8.2. Participation in Congresses and Conferences 21 8.3. Calls 21 8.4. Events 22 8.5. BMT Fan Club 22 8.6. BMT in Schools 22 9. BARCELONA MOON TEAM IN FIGURES 23 10. CONTACT 23

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0. Overview

This document sets out the basic points that describe a cutting-edge technological project, which will serve to open up new ways forward in the Spanish aerospace industry. It is also a social project, involving all society, aiming to bring space closer to people and to inspire the youngsters.

The project is established around the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP) an international technology competition launched by the X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) in collaboration with the Internet services company Google. The XPF is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.

The GLXP will award the first teams to land a privately funded rover on the Moon (90% of the investment must come from private sources). Since Dennis Tito became the first paying astronaut in 2001 and Burt Rutan built the first spacecraft exclusively with private funding in 2004, a new way is blazed in the space sector in which the national agencies will share scene with new private actors.

The GLXP is an opportunity to the national aerospace sector, which is still small but growing. Participation in the contest will develop knowledge, technical expertise and management of complex projects and multidisciplinary teams. These developments will help to face increasing challenges in the sector. At the same time, the necessary research, will revert on other industry sectors and society through spin-offs.

The Barcelona Moon Team (BMT) is the only Spanish representative in the competition. The BMT gathered a team of private companies, research centers and universities in Catalonia and the rest of Spain. Thanks to the large national corporations and institutional and social support the BMT will place the country in the global technology map and revert the effort and investment back to society.

This document sets out the reasons which prompted this participation, team’s objectives and members, as well as the mission concept and associated communication activities.

1. Objective: The Moon as a source for energy solutions.

40 years ago, the first man was sent to the Moon. Neil Amstrong’s first step proclaimed the Americans as winners of the space race. 500 million people watched worldwide the event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at the time.

During the 1960s, the United States unified behind J.F.Kennedy’s call to "landing a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth."

In the Cold War context, the space race became the battleground of the great powers. Behind this statement there was the desire to stimulate the entire country and set a goal to regain the pride hurt by the early successes of the Russians (putting into orbit the first artificial satellite, the first man in space, the first woman, the first EVA). The cold war ended years ago, and in space, confrontation has given

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way to cooperation. The world space powers (with the exception of China) worked together to build the International Space Station (ISS).

During the 50 years of space exploration, technologies were developed that were later transferred to the society in countless spin-offs like Velcro, the LED lights, solar panels, fireproofing materials, etc. Studies of governmental agencies such as NASA and the ESA state that every euro invested in space research reverses 4 to 6 euros in benefits to other sectors.

Then, the mistake was not staying on the moon and take advantage of the astronomical investment, 25,000 million dollars in 1969 (approximately 135,000 million current dollars), requested by the Apollo program.

But, why going back? What can the Moon offer to Mankind?

• Advanced post for Solar System exploration Space exploration is very costly, due to the Earth’s deep gravity well. It’s 22 times easier to launch from the Moon than from the Earth. The lack of an atmosphere on the moon also makes it possible to launch materials from the moon using electric motors rather than expensive rockets. The moon is more than 40% oxygen by weight. Oxygen is the main component of rocket propellant. Much of the rest of lunar soil is silicon (useful for making solar cells) and metals like aluminum and iron. Thanks to the rock and soil return by Apollo astronauts and recent robotic probes we now have detailed knowledge of our nearest neighbor in space. The Moon is the Earth’s offshore island, and a stepping stone to the rest of the Solar System.

• The Moon might be a source of solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems that we face on the Earth. NASA has experimented for more than 30 years with different systems to collect solar energy. This clean energy can be sent from space to the earth with solar collectors in high Earth orbit made from lunar materials. A single solar power satellite could power a major Earth city without CO2 or other pollution. Since these systems provide power at night, energy from power satellites could charge electric cars, generate hydrogen from water, or make synthetic fuels for cars or aircraft during nighttime off-peak power times. In addition, we can collect energy on the moon’s surface and transmit it to the Earth. Eventually we may also collect Helium 3 trapped in moon soil which is an ideal low-radiation fusion fuel.

• The Moon is an open book around the Earth’s past. The prevailing theory of the Moon’s origin is that it was created from a ring of debris that resulted from an ancient collision between the Earth and a lost planet that astronomers have dubbed Theia (the mother of the moon-goddess Selene in mythology.) So when we visit the moon we are, in a sense, reuniting with parts of ancient Earth.

• The Moon can represent a Noe’s Arch to Earth’s life. Thinkers such as Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and Konstantine Tsiolkovsky have suggested that it would be wise to spread humanity beyond the confines of our home planet in order to guarantee the preservation of our species. Space habitats constructed from material already in space (such as lunar

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or asteroid resources) can enable the near term humanization of the solar system. Even though there are no habitable planets in the solar system, Earthlike environments can be created once we have access to lunar and asteroid materials. NASA has conducted detailed studies on precisely how to do this. (cite NASA Stanford and other studies.)

• The Moon allows deep space exploration. The far side of the Moon is the one place in the solar system permanently shielded from the radio and television signals constantly emitted from the Earth. This makes it ideal for radio astronomy.

• The Moon offers the promotion for new technologies. Exploration to Mars and further solar system bodies requires to develop and prove technologies. The moon’s close proximity to the Earth makes it a great place for humans to learn to live and work in space while still having frequent rescue and return opportunities. There we’ll also learn how can we shield astronauts from cosmic and solar radiation or how can we use beamed power to enable fast transportation in the solar system.

2. The Vision: To give impulse to an emergent sector with a high value added.

The economic crisis demands a change in the productive economy which has been based up to now in traditional sectors. This change has to be based in products of high value added, which are fruit of scientific research and development.

In Spain the aerospace industry is still small but it is growing. The Barcelona Moon Team is a country level project. It represents a common proposal with the objective of waking up Spanish society to an ambitious but attainable goal. The main objectives are:

• Re-situate the country. The project will place the country in the global technological scene when it wins the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a global competition sending a robotic private mission to our satellite.

• Give impulse to the aerospace Spanish industry. The project will generate many direct jobs among the various participant companies. It will also foster alliances and will help create relationships among companies and among universities with companies. This will help to accomplish greater goals in the future.

New technologies and know-how will be developed and the creation of spin-offs is anticipated. The project will also develop new products to be commercialized in the fields of telecommunications, automation and miniaturization of electro-mechanic devices, robust software, management of quality, coordination of complex projects, and expertise in managing inter-disciplinary teams.

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• Bring Space closer to society. Space is still a distant concept to society, although at the same time is an endless source of fascination. The project aims to involve society through a powerful outreach program with the media (TV, printed press, education programs, social contests, direct participation by buying flight kilometres, etc.).

The project includes a program to introduce Space to schools in order to promote the interest in space and technology to the youth, and to motivate the youth to pursue careers in science and technology.

To reach all these goals along with the objectives of the Lunar Prize, the Barcelona Moon Tem will develop a proprietary space vehicle and a robotized rover. These vehicles will be launched, placed in orbit, and guided during its cruise flight to finally make a soft landing on the lunar surface. Once on the Moon the rover will accomplish the objectives of roaming 500 meters, send back to Earth video and images of the Earth and the Moon, and also fulfill its scientific objectives.

All these objectives will be accomplished with the help of the Spanish Institutions and with private funding of more than 75%, in accordance with the actual strategy towards Space. The recent decisions of the North American Administration and Nasa, due to the Augustine Commission (Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee), open the free access by the private sector to Space. Hopes are that this openness will be definitive and that the private sector will play a role not only as providers of equipment and technology but as main actors.

The true essence of the new approach is to allow the private sector to take over. The incentives to private initiative can be in the form of objectives, as the ones presented, or by liberalizing the sector (with all the guarantees of security and control) opening outstanding opportunities to new developments. Initiatives as the GLXP or the so called space tourism, are no more than the first steps towards more ambitious developments in which private enterprises, universities, and society as a whole can get involved and can give the momentum to take Mankind beyond Earth.

If, within this project, we are able to demonstrate skills in industry, management and science, we will be doing no more than using the project as a wonderful excuse to expand our horizons to a level which seems to all of us limitless.

3. Google Lunar X PRIZE: the Oportunity

The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured the world’s attention when the Burt Rutan-led team, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world’s first private spaceship to win the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight.

The Foundation has since launched the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE and the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The Foundation, with the support of its partner, BT Global Services, is creating prizes in Space and Ocean

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Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy and Environment, Education and Global Development. The Foundation is widely recognized as a leader in fostering innovation through competition.

The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is an unprecedented international competition that challenges and inspires engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. The competition's grand prize is worth $20 million. To provide an extra incentive for teams to work quickly, the grand prize value will change to $15 million whenever a government-funded mission successfully explores the lunar surface, currently projected to occur in 2013.

To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth.

Additionally, a second place prize of $5 million will be available for the second team to complete the competition objectives. $4 million in bonus prizes are available for achieving other specific mission objectives, including operation at night; traveling more than 5km over the lunar surface; detection of water; and precision landing near an Apollo site or other lunar sites of interest (such as landing/crash sites of man-made space hardware).

And last, a $1 million award will go to the team that demonstrates the greatest attempts to promote diversity in the field of space exploration.

4. Barcelona Moon Team: the Challenge

4.1. Overview

The Barcelona Moon Team (BMT) is a multidisciplinary joint venture bringing together entrepreneurial, industrial and academic capabilities representing the only Spanish based team at the GLXP.

Among its objectives are (1) to take the leadership in an ambitious space project. This important project elevates the Spanish aerospace sector to a leadership position in all the aspects related with the management and execution of a highly complex space mission. Thanks to this leadership position the national industry can play a role as a main contractor using its demonstrated experience and capabilities, meaning a competitive advantage. It is foreseen that these capabilities will help win contracts for our companies in the future.

And (2) to foster the scientific and technical vocations and to retain talent; thanks to an extensive communications program with the aim to stimulate the participation of the general public in the event. In one hand scientific and technical careers will be encouraged among the youth, developing specialized knowledge workers for the future. In the other hand the attraction of international talent will bring new professionals and researchers from abroad, stopping the exodus of professionals and young graduates and doctors to other countries.

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4.2. Leadership

Galactic Suite Moonrace is a filial company of Galactic Suite. With its participation in the GLXP, GSMR will gather the know-how to develop future commercial missions both for private or governmental agencies.

The company is developing a network of organizations, companies and research groups from universities, with great individual capacity in very specialized fields and experience in several ESA missions, which will generate new technologies and knowledge for this and future missions.

4.3. Team 4.3.1. Xavier Claramunt Team Leader. Xavier Claramunt founder and president of Galactic Suite, and is an ever-surprising entrepreneur. He took off as aeronautical engineer but ended landing as unpredictable architect. He works in Barcelona, with satellite offices in China, Dubai and México. He entered the space tourism sector, focusing in maximizing the customer experience in the development of an orbital hotel. He is best known for his way of working without prejudices, his unconventional way of dealing with commissions with no fear of entering unknown fields. He defines his attitude as the one of being prepared to do things with enthusiasm while non taking anything as ridiculous.

4.3.2. Marc Zaballa Associate Team Leader. Marc is architect by the Technical University of Catalonia. He attended the International Space University Space Studies Program in 2008 and he is a member of the ISU alumni group in Barcelona. In 2006 Marc entered the space tourism company Galactic Suite to coordinate the team that designed the architecture of both the Earth and Space segments. Marc is currently Head of Projects and member of the Executive Board, responsible of new concepts in the aerospace sector within th Galactic Suite company.

4.3.3. Carlos García Carlos is an industrial engineer by the Technical University of Catalonia, specialized in mechanical engineering. Carlos has long experience in systems integration, industrial automation and management. He worked in the automobile sector with automated guided vehicles, automobile security systems, manufacturing planning and control, etc. He is Surface Operations Manager and coordinates the team responsible of the rover with the UPC.

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4.3.4. Juan de Dalmau Technical Advisor. Juan is a faculty member of the International Space University (ISU) and a staff member of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1985. He also serves as general delegate of the Community of Ariane Cities (CVA), a non-profit association of cities and industries involved in the Ariane launcher programme. Juan entered the space sector in 1985 and has worked for ESA, the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and ISU in personnel management, project and programme management, finance, strategy, international relations and communication. Juan has cumulated ten years of experience at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where he was the first non-French Range Operations Director (DDO), in charge of Ariane-4 launch campaigns. While in Kourou, he also worked as ground facilities engineer for the construction and qualification of the Ariane- 5 manufacturing, integration and launch facilities.

4.3.5. Ed Chester Technical Advisor. Ed's professional background includes ground segment systems architect and integration and test engineer at ESA-ESOC (Germany), flight operations team member at ESA-ESOC (Germany), flight operations and system management for the Beagle-2 Mars lander (UK), I.T. management (UK) and instrumentation/embedded system design (UK). He is interested in data systems, payload operations, system design, design methods, and operational research.

4.3.6. Alfonso Martínez Technical Advisor. Alfonso is General Director of Altran Spain and Executive Director of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering at international level. Aeronautical engineer of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he was a founding partner of Media Engineering Consultants. Leading Engineering in the Spanish space sector, the company was integrated to Altran Technologies in 2007. As a consultant and manager, has spent most of his career in the space sector, mainly in the engineering and R&D of space vehicles and equipment.

4.3.7. Josep Amat Head of Rover. Josep holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where he is Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology since 1983. He is a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans since 1990, Invited Professor of the Artificial Intelligence Lab. of MIT (EUA) since 1991, and member of the Real Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts of Barcelona since 2000. He has received many prizes and honors among them the medal Narcís Monturiol to Scientific and Technical Merit from the Generalitat de Catalunya (1990), the International Prize of Science and Technology of Barcelona (1992). His research activities have focused in the digital treatment of signals and computer vision, especially in its applications in the field of robotics. Currently, he is developing several research projects in the field of submarine robotics, application of robots in surgery and guidance of mobile robots as head of the Research Group for Intelligent Robots (Grins) in the UPC.

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4.3.8. Ignasi Casanova Head of Science Team. Ignasi is professor of Materials Chemistry at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, Barcelona Tech). B.S. Geology (University of Barcelona, Spain), M.Sc. Nuclear Engineering and Ph.D. in Geochemistry (University of New Mexico, USA). He has worked as a researcher in Los Alamos National Labs, NASA's Johnson Space Centre and the University of Chicago. He’s been co-investigator in some missions of the European Space Agency (SMART-1, Mars Express), has served as a member of the Exploration Science and Technology Advisory Group of the European Space Agency. Ignasi’s current research activities include nanotechnology for space exploration and in situ resource utilization, and together with the SELENA team will develop a scientific payload to demonstrate in situ the feasibility of extraction fo oxygen from regolith, based on current technology and recent developments on the measuring techniques of the oxygen release from minerals.

4.3.9. Pablo Colmenarejo Pablo Colmenarejo obtained his Mc.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain. He is a Head of GNC division at GMV. With 15 years of experience he has led and has been personally involved at technical level in most of the ESA recent activities related to the exploration (e.g. Mars Sample Return mission) within the GNC domain.

4.3.10. Alfonso Martínez Alfonso is the Director of Systems EADS CASA Espacio. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and he has worked in different companies, having spent most of his career at CASA, where he participated in and directed many space systems programs.

4.3.11. Alfonso Martínez Angel Alvaro Sanchez is R&D Manager at Thales Alenia Space España. With over 15 years experience in the space sector, has participated as a designer and head of digital equipment department in a variety of satellites and missions, among which stand the probes Rosetta, Mars Express and Venus Express. Responsible of operations and production for 3 years, now applies the knowledge gained to develop new equipment and systems for future scientific and communication satellites. Telecomunication Engineer, married, two children, is fond of teaching about the use of space to serve the people.

4.3.12. Rafael Harillo Legal Advisor. Rafael is a professional lawyer, specialized in business law and space law. Rafael is member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) and the European Centre For Space Law (ECSL) from ESA. Rafael is alumnus of the International Space University, Strasbourg and currently studies Planetary Science and Search for Life in the Open University, London. His activity is focused in developing the regulatory framework for the Spanish space sector, which is underdeveloped compared to other countries.

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4.4. Foundation for Space and Lunar Exploration (FEEL)

The Foundation for Space and Lunar Exploration (FEEL) is a private non-profit foundation created to support the technological and industrial development in the Catalan and Spanish aerospace sector. Through its Plans and Programs, the FEEL provides technological, scientific, legal, cultural, and educational services, such as: • Support to the participation of the BMT in the GLXP competition in all the aspects of the competition, both technical, social and educational. • Promotion of infrastructures for human habitation in space. • Promotion of technology transfer from the aerospace industry to other industrial sectors. • Promote, in accordance with the reality of the sector, a widening involvement of private companies in the access to space. • Promote the development of specific legislation on space with the definition of a specific authority to be responsible for the organization of space activities both public and private. • Promote the organization and production of exhibitions, meetings, conferences, seminars as well as graphic and audiovisual material related to these objectives.

ADVISORY BOARD – D. Juan de Dalmau Former Director of the Aerospace Technology Center (CTAE) – Dª. Gloria García–Cuadrado Director of Barcelona Aeronautics and Space (BAIE) – D. Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski Scientific Director of "La Caixa" Foundation – D. Rafael Harillo Member of the Spanish Center for Space Law (CEDE) and the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) de la ESA – D. Alfonso Martínez General Director Altran

HONORIFIC BOARD OF TRUSTEES – Director of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) D. Albert Castellanos – Molt Honorable Sr. Jordi Pujol i Soley – Excelentísimo Sr. Joan Majó Cruzate – President of Barcelona Aeronautics and Space (BAIE) President of Center of Aerospace Technology (CTAE) D. Fernando de Caralt – Rector of the Technical University of Catalonia Excmo. Sr. D. Antoni Giró Roca – Dean of the Catalan Industrial Engineer Association D. Joan Vallvé i Ribera – Dean of the Catalan Telecomunications Engineers Association D. Ferran Amago Martínez – D. Pedro Luís Uriarte Entrepreneur

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4.5. Partners 4.5.1. Galactic Suite Galactic Suite is a Barcelona based company, created in 2007. Its objectives are to create oportunities around technology and people through ventures related to private space access. The company promotes the Galactic Suite Spaceresort project, the space hotel, and a global concept for space tourism with a chain of value also including Earth based infrastructure, to fulfill the space tourist needs for training, accommodation and leisure. Along this, with the strategic partnerships achieved, the company aims at being one of the main international operators for construction and transportation of small and medium payloads to space with a low-cost concept.

4.5.2. Center of Aerospace Technology (CTAE) CTAE is a not-for-profit private foundation that provides technology services to local industry, while also participating in national level and European research programs. It comprises a multidisciplinary group of specialists who work directly for private clients, or as members of integrated project teams with clients including the European Space Agency, the Galileo Supervisory Authority, the regional government of Catalonia, the national government of Spain, and the European Commission, in addition to many industrial customers.

4.5.3. Altran Technologies Altran Technologies is a multinational company for technological and innovation consultancy, with more than 17.000 advisors all around the world. It has been part of many European space projects such as the Ariane 5 launcher, the International Space Station (ISS), the Automated Transfer Module (ATV), large communication satellites and science projects such as the Mars and Venus Express probes, the Herschel-Planck space telescope or the SMOS-MIRAS mission.

Altran is an strategic partner of the EADS group for the engineering and R+D development of their products. Within the Altran Group, its Spanish filial company has an special relevance with close to 2000 advisors and a growing participation in the space sector.

4.5.4. Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) The UPC is a public institution of higher education and research, specializing in the fields of architecture and engineering sciences and involved in technology development. UPC develops quality research, and its high level of technology transfer to society generates knowledge, research, innovation and technological advancement.

To assist the project the University has created a chair with participation of several departments:

The Engineering Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics (ESAII) of the UPC conducts research in the application of robotics, biomedical signals and systems, advanced control systems and computer vision. In the field of robotics it has extensive experience in sensor integration

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and sensing systems for control strategies development. In the field of computer vision, the department specializes in the study and development of algorithms dedicated to image processing in real time for specific industrial applications and the development of visual perception.

The Research Center in Nanoengineering (Crne) is dedicated to research, development and innovation in the fields of micro and nano-engineering, nanotechnology and nanoscience. Its research topics include: handling and dynamics of nanoparticles in electronic, communication and sensors, mechanical, electrical and electronic nanodevices, nanostructures and biological systems, multiscale analysis of coupled processes: complex systems analysis and surface reactivity nano-scale, simulation and modeling of nanoscale systems and nanostructured materials, fabrication, characterization and applications of micro and nanolayers and coatings.

The Department of Applied Mathematics mainly focuses its research on control systems theory, the cohomology of algebraic varieties, partial differential equations and dynamical systems, including celestial mechanics.

4.5.5. GMV GMV is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in nine large sectors for both public and private organisations: Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications, Information Technologies. GMV’s objective is to support its clients through technologically advanced solutions by providing integrated systems, specialized products and services that cover the entire service life, from consulting services and engineering, to the development of software and hardware, integration of turnkey systems and operating support.

Today the group employs more than 1,000 staff, most of whom work in the Space business (about 550) and have outstanding experience and capabilities, including consultancy, system engineering, software development and turn-key systems integration, characterized by the common denominator of innovation for the areas of global navigation satellite systems and applications, flight dynamics, satellite control centers, mission analysis, mission planning and scheduling, payload data segments, science operations centers, user segments and space segment, satellite communications, simulation, systems engineering and GNC, and on-board and embedded software.

4.5.6. EADS CASA ESPACIO EADS Casa Espacio is a company part of Astrium. Located in Madrid, it is composed of more than 400 qualified workers dedicated for more than 30 years to Space Systems, including satellites, platforms, payloads and launchers. The Company has special strength in System Engineering tasks and in Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV) activities for the different payloads and platforms. It is also a reference point for thermal control, mechanisms and structure subsystems design and for antennas design and manufacturing. It has been Prime Contractor of several projects (Minisat, PAZ, INGENIO, SMOS and Spainsat payloads among others) having as customers ESA, HISPASAT, Arianespace, INTA and NASA and standing out for the quality of the results provided.

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4.5.7. THALES ALENIA SPACE España Thales Alenia Space España is a Spanish company devoted to the development of space systems and equipment for telecommunications, Earth observation, scientific research, exploration of the universe, navigation and space vehicles and infrastructure for commercial and institutional programs both civilian and military. The company is a global leader in telecommunication systems and repeaters and Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TTC) data communications equipment in S-band for satellites and spacecraft, with a share of 50% of the world accessible market. Thales Alenia Space España has been working for over 20 years in scientific and Earth observation programmes, providing communications equipment and data processing and mechanism control units for space agencies around the world. It also develops RF and optical sensors for formation flying with application in future scientific and exploration missions.

4.5.8. INTA INTA is a public research organization specialized in aerospace research and technology development. Its main functions include: acquisition, maintenance and continuous improvement of all those technologies for aerospace application; the realization of all kinds of tests to verify and certify materials, components, equipment, subsystems and application systems in aerospace; the technical advice and services to institutions and government agencies as well as industrial and technology companies; act as a technology center of the Ministry of Defense.

4.5.9. Stardust Consulting Stardust Consulting is a legal advisory firm specialized in space. It advises both private companies and public institutions, including the issue of space tourism. Its members are part of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) and the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) of the ESA. Its activities aim at developing the Spanish space sector regulation because, unlike other countries around Spain, there is no Spanish Space Law regulating space activities and encouraging its access to the private sector. 4.6. Governmental Support

The GLXP competition is open to privately funded teams, and the competition rules state that a maximum of 10% of the funds may come from government grants. This percentage does not include the sale of services to governments. Although the BMT does not have any public funding, the local, regional and state governments wanted to support to the initiative: since 2011 the team welcomed onboard the National Aerospace Technology Institute depending from the Defense Ministry.

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5. Activities

5.1. Overview

The moon is again a desired destination. Despite the cancellation of the Constellation program, which pursued to establish a permanent human base on the lunar surface, scientific interest has been validated with the recent discovery of ahigher proportion of volatiles on the surface than expected. Studies such as Futron Corp. foresees about 18 to 24 flights to the Moon during this decade, including governmental and private missions. The BMT team wants to develop a scientific and commercial platform that provides services and data to government agencies and private clients, including pharmaceutical companies, etc. The first mission of BMT, according to its participation in the GLXP, is intended as a technology demonstrator to enable commercial development for future missions. In the first mission the BMT has offered the possibility of carrying two payloads, the SELENA experiment and another experiment that will be selected from a call.

5.2. Flight

The team is currently developing the mission analysis to detail all the aspects of the flight. It will start as (1) a primary payload of a comercial rocket. This is one of the crucial and most costly segments of the mission, and the team is taking into account all the alternatives to the mission, including the American Falcon 9, the new European small launcher VEGA, the russian DNEPR, or the chinese Long March.

Depending of the final choice, the launcher will position the Cruise and Descent Module (CDM) in an Earth Orbit (2), from which it will ignite its rockets to accelerate into a translunar injection (3). The CDM will then slow down to capture a low lunar orbit (4). The CDM as a whole or a part of it as a Descent Module (DM) will break off and slow down in a controlled manner to softly land on the Lunar surface.

5.3. Surface Operations

The Rover Module will descend to the lunar surface autonomously to meet its mission objectives. These are divided into three types: compulsory, optional, and specific to the BMT. The compulsory and optional objectives are defined by the X PRIZE Foundation and the team has chosen compatible specific objectives for its rover, conceived as a scientific and commercial platform to Moon payloads.

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Fig.01 – The Flight

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5.4. Rover

The Rover Module (RM) architecture will be developed around its objective as a scientific and commercial cargo platform and it is defined by its main systems. The mobility system is responsible for propelling the rover, traversing obstacles, and climbing/descending slopes. The team has early iterated with non-wheeled rovers but finally the baseline design will be similar to other common planetary rover designs with 6 wheels

The communications system is responsible for sending Mooncasts, systems health, navigation information and any other mission data from the Moon down to Earth. It is also responsible for sending commands and any other mission data from Earth up to the Moon. The communications architecture include a high rate downlink for delivering payload data, a low rate downlink for delivering systems health information and to serve as a backup in case of failure of the high rate link, a high rate cross link between the rover and lander, and a low rate uplink for sending commands to the rover and lander from the ground stations.

The power subsystem is responsible for power generation, storage, management and distribution. A baseline design with a combination of solar arrays and batteries is assumed to be the simplest and most effective combination. The rover will have three different operating modes: peak, nominal and standby. It is assumed that for the various modes, certain components would never be operating at the same time. 5.4. Selena

SELENA (acronym for Sustainable Experiment on Lunar Exploitation using a Nanotechnology Approach) is an experiment to demonstrate in situ the presence of lunar volatiles and/or demonstrate the feasibility of extracting oxygen from the lunar regolith; it intends to use the principles of thermogravimetric (TG) analysis to collect sample(s) from the surface of the Moon, treat them in situ, and measure any loss of mass. This experiment also adresses to the GLXP Bonus Prize category for detection of water on the Moon and the award for promoting diversity in the field of space exploration.

The Moon has traditionally been considered a dry, volatile-free planet. However, some early theoretical speculations and more recent remote sensing evidence strongly suggest the presence of lunar (H2O) ice. In addition to the great scientific interest of such a discovery, lunar ice can become an essential natural resource to aid the continuous exploration of the Moon and the planets beyond. SELENA will attempt to carry out the first ever demonstration of the technological feasibility of in situ (planetary) resource utilization (ISRU).

5.5. Planetary Protection

Planetary protection (PP) is the term given to the practice of protecting solar system bodies (i.e., planets, moons, comets, and asteroids) from contamination by Earth life, and protecting Earth from

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possible life forms that may be returned from other solar system bodies. Planetary protection is essential for several important reasons: to preserve our ability to study other worlds as they exist in their natural states; to avoid contamination that would obscure our ability to find life elsewhere—if it exists; and to ensure that we take prudent precautions to protect Earth's biosphere in case it does.

We plan to extend this concept of planetary protection beyond biological contaminations since, although important as it is, there is variety of other concerns about the preservation of the lunar environment an how it may be affected by a series of missions like the ones proposed in the Google Lunar X Prize. Our PP analysis will focus on the development of a very strict documentation plan to describe the details of any action by the lunar rover, from an accurate description of the landing scenario, to details of the roving trajectory as well as any experiment carried out on the lunar surface.

5.6. Calls

The BMT wants to gather interest on the Moon by the global scientific community and university through two calls. On one side, open to researchers around the world, a scientific call is open to provide a flight opportunity to the most notable experiment. This call will be opened in two stages, a call for ideas, and a call for proposals. The BMT will fly the winning experiment in late 2014.

On the other, to provide an opportunity to young engineers and students, a robotic call is open for a mini/micro lunar rover with mobility without wheels. This call for proposals will end with a terrestrial tournament to choose the winner who will develop a space qualified version to fly with the BMT rover.

Fig.02 – The BMT rover roaming on the Moon

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6. Sponsors

The BMT offers the opportunity to sponsor the team through monetary contributions or technical investment in equipment, software, etc. The team has an extensive communication program to provide visibility to the sponsors including dedicated areas for company logos in the mission hardware, advertising during events and hospitality activities. 6.1. Premium

Premium sponsors are those contributing with amounts from 10M€ to 20M€. They will have greater visibility in the logos dedicated area on the rover, and presence in the public activities of the project. They will also benefit from hospitality and events for their executives and major customers 6.2. Gold

Gold sponsors are those contributing with amounts from 5M€ to 10M€. They will have large visibility in the logos dedicated area on the rover, and presence in the public activities of the project. They will also benefit from hospitality and events for their executives and major customers. 6.3. Collaborators

Collaborators are those contributing with amounts up to 5M€. They will have visibility in the logos dedicated area on other mission hardware, and presence in the public activities of the project. 6.4. Official Suppliers

The Official Suppliers are companies involved in the project with technical contribution in the form of engineering effort; hardware development or software temporary licensing. In return they will have visibility in events.

7. Services

7.1. Hardware and Services Sales.

The team considers this mission as a technology demonstrator to gather technical and management knowledge, which will have its return selling equipment, data and services to public agencies interested in reducing costs. This market is estimated by Futron Corp. with approximately 20 missions to the moon in the next decade, with a mission cost between 50 and 100 million dollars.

NASA actually opened in August 2010 the Lunar Innovative Demonstration Data (ILDD) to purchase $30M of data to American teams participating in the GLXP. The BMT in cooperation with the European teams will encourage the European Space Agency to recognize the contribution that the GLXP represents and to follow the same steps than NASA to purchase data from European teams.

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There will also be a market in the sale of services to private sector including images for media and scientific data for future commercial uses, as well as secondary loads such as pharmaceutical experiments, etc..

7.2. Patents/Spin Offs

Team’s technological development offers the purchase or license for patents in several parts of the mission including key subsystems, components, software, etc. that can be offered to other fields such as asteroids mining for rare minerals, solar panels and batteries, etc.

8. Outreach

The Team foresees a complete outreach and education plan to achieve one of its main objectives: to spread the word around the Team activities. This strategy seeks for two goals:

To (1) arise real interest of society around the GLXP competition, the Team and space science and technology in general, especially within the younger generation. To promote science and technical education, at a time when Engineering students are decreasing in Spain. And to (2) create a social need for the project to succeed, in order to stimulate big companies to invest on the project to be community-friendly.

8.1. Programs

The team has already launched the following programs:

8.1.1. Web and Social Networks The team continuously updates its website along with the major social networks: including the team's official website, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa and Youtube.

8.2. Participation in Congresses and Conferences The team has participated in many conferences specialized in space around the world including the Global Lunar Utilization Conference 2010 in Beijing, the International Space Development Conference 2010 in Washington, the International Astronautical Congress 2010 and 2011 in Prague and Cape Town, or the 3rd Intersectoral Fair Robotics and Automation in Sabadell.

8.3. Calls The BMT wants to promote interest of the global scientific community and university in the Moon by launching two calls. One is open to researchers around the world, providing them a flight opportunity to carry an experiment to the Moon. This call is open in two stages, a call for ideas, and a call for proposals. The winner will develop the experiment for inclusion in the flight of BMT in late 2014.

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There is also an opportunity for students of Catalan and Spanish technical universities to propose robotic options for mobility without wheels, for a mini / micro lunar rover, which complies the 500m roaming objective. This call for proposals will end with a competition on Earth who will choose the winner who will develop space qualified version for the flight. http://www.barcelonamoonteam.com/calls/

8.4. Events The team organizes activities to coincide with events of special importance related to the initiative or the aeronautics and space in general, including the team's official presentation in Barcelona CosmoCaixa, a remote-controlled rovers gymkhana at the Festa al Cel 2011, etc.

8.5. BMT Fan Club The team has launched an initiative to share the initiative and we asks people to join the team efforts becoming a fan having filled out a short form at the team’s website. All of team’s fans will have their name and photograph travelling to the surface of the Moon uploaded to the robot sent to the moon.

In the meantime, every fan becomes a pixel in the Pixel BMT Moon, while the team will regularly report on its progress through its newsletter and social media.

8.6. BMT in Schools The team has also begun a campaign to visit primary and secondary schools in Catalonia and (later also the rest of the country) to spread the mission and nurture curiosity and scientific and technical vocations within the youngsters.

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9. Barcelona Moon Team in figures

Registration April 2010 Estimated Launch December 2014 (TBC) Estimated Mission Time Launch and Flight: 4 days Surface Ops: 15 days Budget 54 Million Euros

10. Contact

TEAM Name: BARCELONA Moon Team Address: Pellaires, 30-38 G01 08019 Barcelona SPAIN Telephone: +34 933 037 027 Fax: +34 933 034 665 Email: [email protected] Web: www.barcelonamoonteam.com PRESS CONTACT Name: Ariadna Boada Position: Head of Press Mobile: +34 619 47 77 84 Email: [email protected]

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