Bangalore startup Team Indus wins at Google Lunar XPrize milestone event

A Bangalore-based startup, Team Indus, was one of the winners of the Google Lunar XPrize, winning US $1 million in a competition held recently.

The group was one of five winners in a milestone event of the US $30 million campaign, held to help private enterprises land a robot on the moon. The team won the prize for technological innovation in landing logistics. A total of US $5.25 million was handed out to the winners at the event.

Team Indus’ founding team, as it's page on Lunar XPrize's site details, is comprised of "a former Air Force pilot, a management guru, a branding expert who is also a turnaround honcho, a serial entrepreneur and an aerospace engineer with a passion for space."

Other winners at the event were US teams Astrobotic and Moon Express, Japanese team Hakuto, and German team Part Time Scientists. The final deadline for the teams to launch their missions currently stands at December 2016.