Welcome to Crescent Comm! Founded in 2007, Crescent Comm is a small engineering design team formed to compete for the Google Lunar X- Prize as a part of the ECE 6390 Satellite Communications and Navigation Systems course at Georgia Tech. As the competition guidelines state, Crescent Comm seeks to “successfully land a privately-funded craft on the lunar surface 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.” As a multidisciplinary design team, Crescent Comm has developed a robust proposal for the X-Prize that encompasses aspect of communications, power systems, propulsion, trajectory analysis, and rover systems design. Thank you for visiting and please take a moment to explore our website to see what Crescent Comm is doing to make privately-funded space exploration a reality!

 

To compete for the Google Lunar X-Prize, Crescent Comm proposes to launch a spacecraft to the Moon consisting of a lunar lander  (Googol), which will deploy a rover (Vanguard). The Vanguard will communicate with the Deep Space Network (DSN) on Earth via a relay on the Googol.

 

Ben Brackett	Power Systems and Cost Estimates
Chris Gruber	Trajectory Analysis and Propulsion Systems
Cody Planteen	Communications Systems, Timeline (Gantt Chart), Website Integration
Sagar Dumbre	Rover Systems, Website Design and Integration
Vijay Balasubramanian	Communications Systems and Link Budget Analysis