Technology In Space
Create your solutions to the new 2014 challenges or build on one of the pre-selected solutions from 2013.
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Alert-Alert!
Your challenge is to create a central place for information and visualizations of these sky phenomena.
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Bring the Internet to Deep Space Exploration
We are pretty spoiled here on Earth with our almost constant connectivity to and through the Internet. In space, we don’t always have that luxury.
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NASA Small Business One-Stop
Develop a tool for small business users, as well as local and state business development professionals that can be a one-stop-shop for information about NASA support for small business technology development and innovation.
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PhoneSat: Convert Your Smartphone Into a Satellite
Your challenge is three-fold: develop a USB-like dongle that converts a smart phone into a nanosatellite/CubeSat; develop a StarTracker app to convert a smart phone camera into a star tracker; and/or create a mission analysis using a sample launch vehicle
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Pilot a Satellite!
What would it look like if you could pilot an orbiting satellite? Create a visualization tool so people have a view from a satellite as it moves in orbit or transfers orbits. You
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Space Adventure: From the Earth To the Limits of the Solar System
Develop an application that displays the positions of missions currently in space.
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Space Mission Roadmap
Design an interactive space mission roadmap based on international space agency roadmaps and mission schedules.
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Space Wearables: Fashion Designer to Astronauts
Your challenge is to design wearable clothing and accessories that could be useful for space travelers and/or the engineers and technicians involved with ground processing spacecraft and rockets.
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Virtual Ground Station App – Global Crowdsourcing of CubeSats
Your challenge is to develop a common antenna kit or directions and an app that can receive data transmitted from these orbiting CubeSats through ground stations around the world to create a global data network.
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Cloudless Spots for Solar Power Generation
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CubeWorld
CubeWorld is a community where users and universities can develop their own CubeSat missions by proposing them and receiving feedback from other enthusiasts.
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Inbound
Inbound displays, in an abstract manner, the frequency Earth is bombarded by CMEs.
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Space Cal NYC
SpaceCalNYC plots each observation against a beautiful image of our galaxy, lets visitors click targets to get additional details, and links to images when available.
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Stellar Stuff
Stellar Stuff is an interactive digital tool that takes data from NASA's spinoffs database and turns it into an educational resource for kids.
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World Energy Xplorer
We decided to take the challenge and combine, solar energy, wind energy and geothermal energy into one single user friendly map