NASA has launched a challenge inviting participants to design small satellite (SmallSat) missions that can enhance regenerative agriculture, forestry, or other land resilience efforts. The goal is to leverage adaptive sensing and onboard processing to improve Earth observation capabilities. Participants are encouraged to focus on orchestrating existing land observation algorithms into an efficient, responsive onboard intelligence layer within the constraints of SmallSat missions.
The challenge aims to advance computational and systems approaches for adaptive sensing or onboard processing on SmallSat missions. The focus is on improving how SmallSats sense, process, and deliver information to enable applications related to land resilience. The total prize money for this challenge is $400,000. For more information, visit the official NASA website.
Original Source: NASA Space to Soil Challenge