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The Google Lunar XPRIZE is a US$30 Million prize purse competition to foster a new space economy through low-cost, efficient access to the Moon. Aside from the promise of re-opening the lunar surface to science and exploration, the Google Lunar XPRIZE is also a unique example of how the incentive prize model can be used to spur innovation in the space industry. This paper examines some of the most important ways that that innovation is being stimulated and summarises the progress and impacts to date
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Barton, A., Wong, N., Webber, D. (2018). The Google Lunar XPRIZE – Past, Present and Future. In: Hatton, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 13th Reinventing Space Conference. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32817-1_8
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