GLXP Competitor Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million to Build Lunar Hoppers
Move Over, Rover: Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Hopping Moon Landers Tech Crunch
Next Giant Leap in Boulder, Colorado— a startup that’s making robots that will land and hop around on the surfaces of other planets in order to gather data, detect resources valuable to humans, and more — attained a $1 million grant from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, to advance their technology and pursue the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize in 2012, the companies revealed today.
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