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SpaceMETA

{{Short description|Brazilian aerospace engineering team}}

{{more citations needed|date=October 2012}}

SpaceMETA{{cite web |title=Google Lunar XPrize|url=http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/spacemeta=|quote=SpaceMETA at GLXP Official site}} is a Brazilian group founded in 2010 to explore aerospace opportunities motivated by Google Lunar X Prize competition.{{cite web |title=The Launchpad |url=http://thelaunchpad.xprize.org/2010/12/checking-in-with-potential-google-lunar.html |quote=SpaceMETA Selected to participate on the GLXP}}

As of 2012, SpaceMETA was one of the less than 30 active teams selected to participate in a competition that offers US$30 million to the team that first lands on the lunar surface and achieves several milestones (landing a robot on the surface of the Moon, traveling 500 meters over the lunar surface, and sending images and data back to the Earth).{{cite web|title=Rules of the $US30 MM XPrize Competition|url=http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/prize-details/rules-overview|quote=SpaceMETA Selected to participate on the GLXP}} In its first mission, SpaceMETA decided to participate in bringing rupture ideas to the race, considering using at a minimum level conventional and already-used space technologies and solutions. SpaceMETA was the last team to be selected by the X Prize Foundation to participate in the GLXP, and the only one selected from Brazil.

History

SpaceMETA was initially sponsored by Intel Corporation,{{cite web |title=Intel-SpaceMETA Sponsorship|url=http://newsroom.intel.com/community/pt_br/blog/2011/05/20/intel-patrocina-projeto-para-lan%C3%A7ar-primeiro-m%C3%B3dulo-lunar-brasileiro|quote=Intel Official Press Release About SpaceMETA Sponsorship}} which has the first right refusal for a first round of investment on a success case basis.

Founders

SpaceMETA was founded by [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/spacemeta/blog/video-sergio-cabral-cavalcanti-spacemeta-talk-about-tech-trends-digital Sergio Cabral Cavalcanti],

{{cite web |title=Sergio Cabral Cavalcanti Profile at GLXP |url=http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/users/sergio-cabral-cavalcanti|quote=}} a researcher from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Teams

First Team ( 2010 )

SpaceMETA first Team was formed by

  • Sergio Cabra; Cavalcanti ( founder )
  • Juliana Laxe
  • Nelson Marques
  • Laurent Gil
  • Several professors from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro)

After 10 years of Project development, several world roadshows with Google GLXP, and fundraising, SpaceMETA began building its second team. It changed its initial goal to a low orbit goal to deploy an ionic-powered engine for a power test before starting a moon movement.

Second Team (2020)

  • Sergio Cabral Cavalcanti (founder)
  • Juliana Laxe
  • Davi Clemente Monteiro Correia
  • Scientist Charles Duvoisin Instituto IBCI{{cite web |title=Instituto IBCI|url=https://patents.justia.com/patent/20190174801|quote=Eletromagnetic Tint Radiation Protection}}

Joint Venture with Synergy Moon

SpaceMETA and several other teams have joined Synergy Moon as one of the five finalist teams to land on the Moon using a possible Orbital Rocket as a primary payload or an Indian rocket as a second payload.

As a premise to not use a commodity project Falcon 9 from SpaceX, the founder of SpaceMETA, Sergio Cabral Cavalcanti, has declared that the team was more interested in an independent innovation once Falcon 9 has Merlin Engine{{snd}}no news different from Saturn V from Rockectdine engines, despite its fantastic technology project.

Mission overview

File:SpaceMETA Lunar Rover Solitaire near Apollo 12.png

SpaceMETA Mission Overview Summary,

{{cite web |title=SpaceMETA Mission Overview |url=http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/spacemeta/blog/spacemeta-lumem-master-plan-of-the-lunar-micro-explore-mission|quote=SpaceMETA LUMEM Overview}}

{{cite web |title=Google Lunar XPrize |url=http://spacemeta.com/thelunarmission/mission-exec-overview/|quote=SpaceMETA Lunar Mission Overview}} as presented to the X Prize Committee, has proposed several rupture innovation approach for its mission. The disclosed innovations are related to the following technical approaches:

  1. Usage of ethanol as rocket fuel
  2. Launch the vehicle not from the ground but a lifted launch using balloons / auxiliary craft
  3. Usage of inflatable structures instead, to transport big things that should be armed there (like antennas and solar panels)
  4. Infinity Motion – SpaceMETA doesn't use a conventional energy system to create movement on the moon rover (called Solitaire

{{cite web |title=The SpaceMETA Moon Rover Solitaire|url=http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/spacemeta/blog/spacemeta-talk-about-its-moon-rover-codename-solitaire-blob-and-frog|quote=}} (x-Frog and x-Blob)), but a NITINOL and Coil based kinetic energy converter called [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/spacemeta/blog/spacemeta-motion-system Infinity Motion.]

  1. Send information to the Earth not using electromagnetic waves, but a special Optical Modulation reflecting the solar light
  2. During the movement of the Lunar Modules on the Surface, usage of the contact/impact process, so embedded sensors will capture the echoes above the surface
  3. Geographically, SpaceMETA plans to visit some SETI / Scientific related sites of interest on the Moon

Gallery

File:SpaceMETA_Lunar_Rover_Solitaire_near_Apollo_12.png|SpaceMETA Solitaire near Apollo 12

File:SpaceMETA Solitaire Lunar Rover Module View.png|SpaceMETA Lunar Rover

File:SpaceMETA-Teste-Wind Tunnel-Rocket Section-Perspectiva.png|SpaceMETA Windtunnel simulation

File:SpaceMETA-Teste-Wind Tunnel-Rocket Section.jpg|SpaceMETA windtunnel simulation

File:SpaceMETA-GLXP-VELA-1-Pressure Simulation.png|SpaceMETA supersonic pressure simulation

File:SpaceMETA-GLXP-VELA-1-Veiculo Lancador.png|SpaceMETA rupture rocket design

File:Solitaire-NitiLegs-CLose-Semi-Expanded.png|SpaceMETA Solitaire Lunar Rover with NITINOL Legs Coil

File:SpaceMETA Nitinol Legs for Infinity Motion.png

References

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  • Intel Sponsorship to SpaceMETA [http://newsroom.intel.com/community/pt_br/blog/2011/05/20/intel-patrocina-projeto-para-lan%C3%A7ar-primeiro-m%C3%B3dulo-lunar-brasileiro]
  • News on SpaceMETA [http://news.ideavalley.net/2012/04/01/774/]
  • SpaceMETA on the Epoca Magazine [http://spacemeta.com/2011/03/10/spacemeta-na-revista-epoca/]
  • SpaceMETA on the ISTOE Magazine [http://spacemeta.com/2011/03/10/spacemeta-na-revista-istoe/]
  • SpaceMETA Joint venture with Synergy Moon [https://www.synergymoon.com/about_synergy_moon.html]
  • Patent Eletromagnetic Protection at al [https://patents.justia.com/patent/20190174801]

External links

  • {{official website|http://spacemeta.com.br}}
  • [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/spacemeta Official SpaceMETA website at GLXP]
  • About Intel Sponsorship to SpaceMETA [http://oglobo.globo.com/tecnologia/intel-investe-em-equipe-brasileira-que-planeja-levar-robo-lua-2767705]
  • About SpaceMETA SocialNet Facebook [http://www/facebook.com/spacemeta]
  • About Founders Sergio Cabral Cavalcanti Interview [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/spacemeta/blog/video-sergio-cabral-cavalcanti-spacemeta-talk-about-tech-trends-digital]
  • SpaceMETA – Intel Interview [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpT1hQVOq8k]
  • Eletromagnetic Tinta Aeroespacial – Eletromagnetic [https://patents.justia.com/patent/20190174801]

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