Listings of X Prize runners current status
Jan 20, 2005 14: 10 EST
The X Prize has panned out but the private Space race continues. We've covered the most important of the former Ansari X Prize runners, but what is the status of the rest? Here goes a quick update:
- American Astronautics: Web down
- Acceleration Engineering: No website
- American Advent: Website is a word document copyrighted in 1998.
- Bristol Spaceplane: Link down from Ansari X Prize website
- Canadian Arrow: Last news from Oct 2.
- High Altitude Research Corp: Last news on their website from July.
- ILAT Aerospace Technologies: No news section on the website.
- Lonestar Space Access: No news on the website since 2000.
- Micro Space: Weird website. All news there from September.
- Pablo de Leon and associates: No news, website is only a presentation.
- PanAero: Funny website selling tickets and offering promotions, “earn cosmic kilometers”. They prepare a "Space van" in 2008 to save the Hubble telescope.
- Pioneer Rocket plane: Seems active - at least they accept reservations for suborbital flights.
- Suborbital Corporation: The Russian option has no website - just an email. Team leader Sergey Kostenko.
- Vanguard Spacecrafts: Sketchy info.
Active or semi-active contestants
The following runners have been covered in full stories on Pythom. Find them in the "more news" section or search their name on this site.
Armadillo
ARCA
Da Vinci
Discraft Corp
Fundamental Technology System
Interorbital Systems
Mojave Aerospace Ventures, LLC. (SpaceShipOne)
Space Transport Corporation
Starchaser Industries LTD
TGV Rockets, Inc
The X PRIZE Foundation is a not-for-profit educational organization with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Its Title Sponsor, the Ansari family, and Presenting Sponsor, Champ Car World Series, supports the Foundation's ANSARI X PRIZE Competition.
The Foundation is also supported by Seven-Up and M&M's as well as private donations from the St. Louis Community through the New Spirit of St. Louis Organization.
October 9, 2004, The X Prize Foundation (XPF) and the World Technology Network (WTN) announced the launch of a public outreach period to help select and sponsor a series of new technology prizes, the WTN X Prizes, developed on the heels of the successful Ansari X Prize competition.
Intended to spur innovation in a variety of critical scientific and technological arenas and in response to great technological, social, and environmental challenges, areas of focus might cover goals in fields such as energy, medicine, information and communications technology, and nanotechnology.
These "holy grail" goals might include cures for major diseases, teleportation, molecular assemblers, cold fusion and a wide variety of others with truly major societal implications. Competition objectives include seeking to meet the greatest challenges and opportunities facing humanity in the 21st century.
The World Technology Network (WTN) is comprised of over 800 individuals and organizations from over 50 countries nominated and judged by their peers to be the most innovative in the technology world. The organization brings key players together to assist in jumpstarting important technological breakthroughs.
Image courtesy of Ansari XPrixe.
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