Lunar Payload and Climate Science Ideas Sought for NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge 2023
NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge offering US$1M in prize money for innovative concepts in two areas: commercially viable lunar payloads and climate science achievable with small instruments and / or analysis of existing available data; Contest running on HeroX crowdsourcing platform, currently 179 innovators on 22 teams competing for round 1, in which 20 $16k prizes to be awarded 10 August; 8 organizational round 2 winners to receive $85k and access to pitch opportunity at Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo 28-30 Nov in Washington DC; SMD Strategy 4.1 on diversity and inclusion to be emphasized in contest