Chinese firm to send Spanish rover to moon in 2014
Updated: 2012-08-18 16:55
(Xinhua)
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MADRID - China Great Wall Industry Corporation will send a Spanish rover to the moon in June 2014, according to the Galactic Suite company which heads the "Barcelona Moon Team" that is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize contest to the moon.
The rover will be launched by a Long March 2C/CTS-2 rocket from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
The Barcelona Moon Team is the only team based in Spain to take part in the Google Lunar X Prize, which challenges participants to create a robot that can move over the lunar surface and send live images back to Earth before December 2015.
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