Space Technology Payload Challenge webinar

FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE WEBINAR

Space Technology Payload Challenge: More on the Latest TechLeap Prize

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | 10:00-11:00 a.m. PST

Speakers

• Greg Peters, Program Manager (Acting), NASA’s Flight Opportunities program
• Macarena Parra, Ph.D., Technologist, NASA’s Flight Opportunities program 
• Stephan Ord, Chief Technologist, NASA’s Flight Opportunities program
• Dan Walsh, Program Executive for Commercially Enabled Rapid Space Science (CERISS), NASA’s Biological and Physical Science Division
• Lynn Van Deventer, Open Innovation Advisor, NASA’s Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing program

Abstract

Join us on January 8 to learn more about the NASA TechLeap Prize’s new competition: the Space Technology Payload Challenge. Flight Opportunities, in collaboration with NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division, intends to award up to nine winners with up to $500,000 prizes and the opportunity for a flight test to develop payloads and advance technologies that address a wide variety of selected NASA shortfalls to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. 

Speakers will cover key details of the challenge and tips for preparing an application. The webinar will also give context to the technology areas the challenge aims to address and will include an overview of NASA’s Commercially Enabled Rapid Space Science initiative.

Attendees are encouraged to submit questions in advance and to watch the recording of the Nov. 20 Q&A.

• TechLeap Registration Deadline: March 4, 2025 at 5pm ET
• TechLeap Applications Due: March 20, 2025 at 5pm ET

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