Five Teams Share First Round of NASA Cubesat Tech Prizes

摘要

Five teams, ranging from university students to a group of engineers dispersed across the country, received $20,000 each from NASA in the first milestone of a competition to develop deep-space cubesat technologies. The teams, announced by NASA at a Sept. 9 briefing, had the highest scores in the first of four "ground tournaments" that make up the initial phase of the agency's $5 million Cube Quest Challenge. That tournament, held in early August, featured 13 teams who presented their initial spacecraft designs.