PropelX seeks X-Prize at EBC Silicon Valley

TechInsights, a division of United Business Media, announced earlier this week PropelX, another prospective contender for the Google Lunar X-Prize, is in the running.

PropelX has a website up, and a press release offering up some excellent clues where prospective team leader Brian Beckius, owner of North Star Machining, and his PropelX team are headed.

The Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, April 14-18 will host PropelX and a myriad other prospects and vendors.

“Beckius will be demonstrating the team's moon rover while officially announcing their entrance into the Google Lunar X Prize and their team name,” according to TechInsights.

“The PropelX Team will also be meeting with parties interested in helping the team achieve their quest for the $20 million prize.”

"The rover on the moon project is heavily dependent on embedded systems,” Beckius said. “Since this is a volunteer project, we thought it was only right to unveil it at the world's most influential conference on embedded systems. Our expectation is that we will be able to attract new volunteers and network with interested companies at the ESC."

On it’s thin website, PropelX calls for teams members and investors for its proposed project and TechInsights directs those interested to view a YouTube demonstration of its mock-up lunar rover. Website graphics and Flicker hosted photographs show Beckius’ team in action.