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Challenges typically run in multiple phases, moving from concept and analysis rounds through prototype-building to physical testing, and are open to student teams, independent inventors and established companies alike.

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NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) runs public prize challenges hosted on HeroX, a crowdsourcing challenge platform, rather than through a standalone NASA application portal. Many challenges are built around NASA's own space-exploration problems, covering topics such as lunar rover wheel and habitat design, crewed spacecraft waste systems, and satellite tracking, but NTL also runs challenges on behalf of o…

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