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Sustainable Business Model Challenge

January 17, 2025

Sarah Douglas

Climate change presents one of the most urgent crises of our time, with increasing threats to life, infrastructure, economies, and ecosystems worldwide. Climate change is no longer a distant concern; its effects are being felt now and are projected to intensify if emissions continue unabated. The consequences are severe and irreversible for people today, with…
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Public Participation in Machine Learning Bolsters Extraterrestrial Research

October 8, 2024

Bailey G. Light

When NASA conducts research beyond our world, scientists on Earth prepare as much as possible before sending instruments on extraterrestrial journeys. One way to prepare for these exploration missions is by using machine learning techniques to develop algorithms with data from commercial instruments or from flight instruments on planetary missions. For example, NASA uses mass spectrometer…
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NASA Seeks Innovators for Lunar Waste Competition

September 30, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard A new NASA competition, the LunaRecycle Challenge, is open and offering $3 million in prizes for innovations in recycling material waste on deep space missions. As NASA continues efforts toward long-duration human space travel, including building a sustained human presence on the Moon through its Artemis missions, the agency needs novel solutions…
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NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards

September 13, 2024

Jessica Taveau

NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage technologies that could enable long-duration Moon missions, concludes on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. “For astronauts to maintain…
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2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition

August 20, 2024

Bailey G. Light

The agriculture industry faces several challenges, including limited resources and growing demands to reduce agriculture’s environmental impact while increasing its climate resilience. NASA Aeronautics is dedicated to expanding its efforts to assist commercial, industry, and government partners in advancing aviation systems that could modernize capabilities in agriculture. In NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition:…
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NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

August 19, 2024

Jessica Taveau

NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food. The competitors’ technologies address NASA’s need for sustainable food…
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NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale

August 2, 2024

Jessica Taveau

NASA invites the media and public to explore the nexus of space and food innovation at the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge symposium and winners’ announcement at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 16. In 2019, NASA and the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) started the Deep Space Food…
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Robotic Assembly and Outfitting for NASA Space Missions

July 16, 2024

Sarah Douglas

NASA is turning to the 3D modeling experts in the community for ideas and designs to use or enhance the current state of modular robotic construction techniques. Robotic building of structures in space is an active area of research for NASA and might prove to be a path towards sustainable and scalable space exploration. This…
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NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students

June 28, 2024

Bailey G. Light

NASA’s public competitions can catalyze big changes – not just for the agency but also for participants. Bronco Space, the CubeSat laboratory at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, matured more than just space technology as a result of winning funds from NASA’s TechLeap Prize competition. It grew from its roots in a broom…
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California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

June 13, 2024

Beth Ridgeway

By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the common goal of inventing robots that can excavate and transport the icy…
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Category: Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Sustainable Business Model Challenge

Public Participation in Machine Learning Bolsters Extraterrestrial Research

NASA Seeks Innovators for Lunar Waste Competition

NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards

2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition

NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

NASA Invites Media, Public to Attend Deep Space Food Challenge Finale

Robotic Assembly and Outfitting for NASA Space Missions

NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students

California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge

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