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Space Center Houston and NASA Announce Qualifiers in a $1 Million Innovation Challenge
Team Walk Softly, Niskayuna, New York, are among the 22 qualifying teams in the Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge a NASA Centennial Challenge. Teams were awarded prize money based on their score and number of tasks completed. Out of 114 registered teams, 22 teams successfully addressed the NASA needs and submitted qualifying entries, allowing them to move on to the final competition round. Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge a NASA Centennial Challenge, is a $1 million prize competition to advance autonomous robotic operations for space exploration missions on the surface of other worlds, such as the Moon and Mars.
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Runaround Robots, Cedar Falls, Iowa are among the 22 qualifying teams in the Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge a NASA Centennial Challenge. Teams were awarded prize money based on their score and number of tasks completed. Out of 114 registered teams, 22 teams successfully addressed the NASA needs and submitted qualifying entries, allowing them to move on to the final competition round. Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge a NASA Centennial Challenge, is a $1 million prize competition to advance autonomous robotic operations for space exploration missions on the surface of other worlds, such as the Moon and Mars.
Credit: Courtesy of Space Center Houston
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NASA Centennial Challenges Program, part of the prizes and challenges portfolio within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, offers incentive prizes to generate revolutionary research and technology solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation. Centennial Challenges is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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