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The latest NASA TechLeap Prize is the Space Technology Payload Challenge. NASA intends to award up to nine prizes worth up to $500,000 each plus the opportunity for a flight test to develop payloads and advance solutions that address a wide variety of NASA’s technology shortfalls to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. The expectation is that the technologies will be tested at the end of the challenge aboard a suborbital vehicle, rocket-powered lander, high-altitude balloon, aircraft following a reduced gravity profile (i.e., parabolic flight), or orbital vehicle that can host payloads.

The TechLeap Prize seeks to rapidly identify and develop space technologies through a series of challenges that address specific technology shortfalls for NASA and the nation. TechLeap is open to qualified commercial businesses, academic institutions, entrepreneurs, and other innovators. In addition to a cash prize, winners have an opportunity to receive access to a suborbital or hosted orbital flight opportunity on a commercial flight vehicle. Managed by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, TechLeap is administered by Carrot, NASA’s Tournament Lab contractor.