KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

Google is teaming since september 2007 with the X Prize foundation to launch a commercial race to the Moon with a $30 million incentive.  To win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a team must successfully land a privately funded craft on the lunar surface and survive long enough to complete the mission goals of roaming about the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending a defined data package, called a “Mooncast”, back to Earth.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/ 

0n FT Predict (Financial Times Predict), the games are openned. The Google Lunar X Prise to be won before 2012 can be bet on or off. It is a volatile value.

A quite different subject than the usual prediction games of FT.com like the pakistani national election date or the possible US + Israel Air Strike over Iran prediction date for 2008...

Google Moon already exist. Images are from the NASA, as well as for Google Space. But if you look for Google Lunar, everything is not ready.

If interested, you can join and apply for a job on the moon, at he Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (GCHEESE) ! 

By Locating a research and technology center on The Moon (Googlunaplex), Google engineers will be able to experiment with an entirely different set of parameters and conditions.

The Googlunaplex will house 35 engineers, 27,000 low cost web servers, 2 massage therapists and a sushi chef formerly employed by the pop group Hanson.

La plupart des appareils GPS permettent d’enregistrer les positions GPS calculées (“GPS track”) dans un format GPX. Ce format peut être directement utilise par Google Earth.

Google a signe recemment un accord avec la NASA, le “Space Act Agreement”, qui viendra completer Google Earth / map avec les donnees de la NASA. L'agence spatiale a deja une longue histoire dans le domaine de l'imagerie planetaire et spatiale : voir par exemple NASA WorldWind, MODIS, le Nasa Earth Observatory, NEO, Nasa Visble Earth (page d'images, ou encore le Earth Tag Cloud (fichier KML a ouvrir avec Google Earth). Voir aussi le partenariat Japonais ERSDAC.

Du coup, Google Earth s'etend a l'espace (est-ce le debut d'un Google Space ?).

Ci dessous la trajectoire GPS du missile chinois repere le 11 janvier dernier : L'analyse est fournie par le SpaceProgramm du MIT, qui fournit aussi le fichier KML pour Google Earth