Here's the rocket being tested at MASA launch site outside El Snorto.
Posted on 06/13/2015 7:58:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Agencia Espacial Mexicana (AEM) and Astrobotic Technology Inc. are pleased to announce a joint effort to facilitate the development and delivery of the first payload from Latin America to the Moon. Astrobotic and AEM have entered into an agreement outlining a commitment by both organizations to enable a Mexican payload to the Moon. Through this partnership, AEM will take its first step to another planetary body.
"Opening access to the Moon is precisely at the core of Astrobotic's mission," said John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic. "AEM's rising space science and exploration community is yet one more example of the immense international interest in the Moon as a destination for science, exploration, and other activities. We are proud to be partnered with our friends in Mexico.
In May, AEM issued its second request for proposals (RFP) through the AEM-CONACYT Fund of Trusts for Space Science and Technology, in which project proposals are expected from the Mexican space science and exploration community to determine the agency's lunar payload. The RFP is expected to be awarded by Fall 2015. The winning proposal will be built and delivered to the Moon.
About Astrobotic: Astrobotic is a lunar logistics company that delivers payloads to the Moon for companies, governments, universities, non-profits and individuals. Our spacecraft accommodates multiple customers on a single flight, offering flexibility at an industry-defining low price. Astrobotic is a NASA contractor, and an official partner with NASA on the Lunar CATALYST program. With its partner Carnegie Mellon University, Astrobotic is pursuing the Google Lunar XPRIZE. Astrobotic was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Here's the rocket being tested at MASA launch site outside El Snorto.
No welfare, not even cheap labor, what’s the point?
“My name...José Jiménez. I am...an astro-nawwt.”
“Is that your crash helmet?”
“I hope not.”
“Astrobotic”
Would that mean related to a shiny metal assed-robot?
I had to see if this was satire.
Half their country doesn’t have toilets. They’re about to have coup staged by drug cartels. What in goodness name could they possibly be sending to the moon?
Talk about needing to get their priorities straight. Wow.
Bender Rodriguez
and a velvet painting of that fat coke head E. Pressley.
Where are the fuzzy dice and dingle balls?
“It doesn’t say what the launch vehicle will be.”
A ‘57 Chebby.
Arriba!
This will unite the entire universe and bring all beings together as they come here to ask the same question we all have, “Mexico has a space program?”
Mexican satellites doing the jobs American satellites won’t do.
Hybrid rocket that utilizes a mix of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and meth for fuel?
It doesn’t say what the mission payload is either. I guess they’ll figure that out sometime prior to launch. Maybe they’ll leave something interesting on the lunar surface.
Are they launching a heavy lift weedeater
This is awful.. Mexicorruption is now sending their unwanted citizens to the Moon. I guess they have word that American public opinion is about to explode into such a rage that our Ruling Class can no longer ignore.
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