In addition, they hope to foster greater public interest and education in Space Exploration and Research.
[2] Dr. Sean Casey of the Universities Space Research Association[3] manages business development for Team FREDNET.
[10] Team FREDNET relies heavily on Open Source Software Tools to accomplish their mission.
Team FREDNET plans to use a simple architecture in their bid to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, consisting of a small lander that will deploy a small lunar rover which in turn will use the lander as a communication relay back to Earth.
[17] A future elementary school level competition will be used to name the Rover that the team will eventually send to the moon.