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Chinese firm to send Spanish rover to moon in 2014
by Staff Writers
Madrid, Spain (XNA) Aug 22, 2012

The Barcelona Moon Team is the only team based in Spain to take part in the Google Lunar X Prize.

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.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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