New NASA Centennial Challenges Announced

[John Pritchard]

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ipp/innovation_incubator/centennial_challenges/index.html

The Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge

To place a small satellite into Earth orbit, twice in one week. The prize purse is $2 million.

[Joshua]

Very funy

Joshua

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[John Pritchard]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Joshua <trist...@gmail.com> wrote:

Very funy

Joshua

why?

 

[Joshua]

Because there are a lot of prizes.
Best,
Joshua

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[John Pritchard]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Joshua <trist...@gmail.com> wrote:

Because there are a lot of prizes.
Best,
Joshua

This one has not even started yet, and seems perfectly aligned to your objectives and capabilities.  I doubt my Sagittarius project would be ready in time, but a rocket solution certainly could be.
 

[Alex Csete]

A problem (for me) with NASA prizes is that they are limited to
participants from the US (it's tax money).
I don't know if the rules allow a participant from the US to
"purchase" from a non-us supplier - in that case anyone can
participate indirectly :P

Alex

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[John Pritchard]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Alex Csete <a...@ulsf.net> wrote:

A problem (for me) with NASA prizes is that they are limited to
participants from the US (it's tax money).
I don't know if the rules allow a participant from the US to
"purchase" from a non-us supplier - in that case anyone can
participate indirectly :P

Alex

That's been my assumption..

Either formally (corporate style) or informally (group style)

I guess the competition will be significant.. if Masten went out for a prize that was half as much..

(my first thought was that the competition might be in our class -- but spending $2M to win $2M is not in our class!)

[Joshua]

Oh yes,

It is NASA prize for US innovation.

Best,

Joshua

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