CLEVELAND, Feb. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — HeroX, the leading platform and open marketplace for crowdsourced solutions, today launched the NASA’s Watts on the Moon Phase 2 Challenge prize competition on behalf of NASA. In support of the agency’s return to the Moon under Artemis, which will establish a long-term human presence at the Moon, NASA seeks innovative engineering approaches that will integrate power transmission and energy storage to support astronauts, hardware, and systems in the extremely challenging thermal and lighting conditions on the lunar surface.
Up to $4.5M in Prizes to Support Sustained Presence on the Moon
As Jim Reuter, Associate Administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate stated in NASA’s release, “Challenges like Watts on the Moon give us the chance to utilize the creativity of industry, academia, and the public to power…