White Label Space
White Label Space was formed in early 2008 by a group of experienced space professionals inspired by the challenge of the Google Lunar X PRIZE. The team aims to finance its Google Lunar X PRIZE mission from advertising expenditure of large global companies.[1]
Locations
The headquarters of White Label Space is in the Netherlands, hosted in the office of the Dutch aerospace company AOES Group BV. [2]
In 2010 the team also established White Label Space Japan LLC, a Limited Liability Company registered in Japan. [3]
Partners
As of January 2008[update], the team had nine official partners:[4]
- Advanced Operations and Engineering Services (AOES Group BV) - an international engineering services and consultancy provider providing specialist support for design and analysis tasks related to the structures, thermal and propulsion subsystems of the Lander and Rover
- The Swiss Propulsion Laboratory - developing a low-cost engine for the landing stage of the White Label Space mission using its in-house rocket motor test bench
- Tohoku University Space Robotics Laboratory - designing the Moon rover for the mission
- Airborne Composites BV - a developer of advanced composite products and technologies for space and other industries, and will provide lightweight high performance composite structures for the mission
- Emxys - a designer and manufacturer of instrumentation and control embedded electronic systems for science and industry markets [5]
- Space Technology Group at the Technical University of Munich
- LunarNumbat - a team of Australians and New Zealanders who are using Open Source technologies to develop new software and electronic hardware in support of the White Label Space mission
- Wrocław University of Technology - developer of aerospace communications equipment
- JAQAR Space Engineering - the partner for orbital design and mission analysis
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