National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- [Notice: 22-014]
AGENCY:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION:
Notice of Centennial Challenges Watts on the Moon Challenge Phase 2.
SUMMARY:
Phase 2 of the Watts on the Moon Challenge is open, and teams that wish to compete may now register. NASA seeks to stimulate research and technology solutions to support future missions and inspire new national aerospace capabilities through public prize competitions called Centennial Challenges. The Watts on the Moon Challenge is one such competition. Centennial Challenges are managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and are part of the Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing program within NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate at the agency's Headquarters in Washington. Phase 2 of the Watts on the Moon Challenge seeks to attract innovative engineering approaches to integrating power transmission and energy storage in order to enable missions operating in the extreme cold vacuum of the lunar surface. Phase 2 of the Watts on the Moon Challenge is a prize competition with a total prize purse of $4,500,000 USD, (four and a half million United States dollars) to be awarded to competitor teams that build and successfully demonstrate prototypes of novel technologies. Successful demonstrations from this challenge will complement ongoing NASA investments in lunar surface power generation. NASA is funding the prize purse and administration of the challenge competition. Any eligible individual or organization may participate in Phase 2. teams are not required to have participated in Phase 1.
DATES:
Phase 2 registration opens February 23, 2022, and will remain open until June 15, 2022. No further requests for registration will be accepted after this date. Other important dates, including deadlines for key deliverables from the teams, are listed on the Challenge website: www.nasa.gov/wattson.
ADDRESSES:
Phase 2 of the Watts on the Moon Challenge will be conducted virtually, with competitor teams developing and submitting their concept proposals and building their prototypes from their own locations. Eligible finalist will test their solutions at a NASA facility as described in the Official Rules document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions and comments regarding the challenge should be addressed to Denise Morris, Centennial Challenges Deputy Program Manager, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL 35812. Phone number 256-544-3989 and Email address: hq-stmd-centennialchallenges@mail.nasa.gov. For general information on NASA prize competitions, challenges, and crowdsourcing opportunities, please visit: www.nasa.gov/solve.
To register or for additional information regarding the Watts on the Moon Challenge, please visit: www.nasa.gov/wattson.