{"id":75615,"date":"2014-11-25T21:46:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-hosts-5-million-cubesat-challenge\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T21:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:46:53","slug":"nasa-hosts-5-million-cubesat-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-hosts-5-million-cubesat-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Hosts $5 Million CubeSat Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-25-2014] <b>NASA<\/b> has opened the registration process for its Cube Quest challenge, a CubeSat competition focused on developing space exploration technology. Competitors will vie for a piece of the $5 million prize along with a chance at launching their CubeSat to the Moon and beyond as a secondary payload on the first integrated flight of NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will compete by designing, building and delivering flight-qualified, small satellites for operations near and beyond the moon. NASA has allocated $500,000 for a series of ground tournaments to determine who will fly on the first SLS flight. A larger prize purse of $1.5 million is for demonstrating communication and CubeSat durability at a distance greater than almost 2.5 million miles \u2014 10 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The remaining $3 million is for a \u201cDeep Space Derby\u201d where competitors will have to prove they can place a CubeSat in a stable lunar orbit while demonstrating communication and spacecraft durability near the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-25-2014] NASA has opened the registration process for its Cube Quest challenge, a CubeSat competition focused on developing space exploration technology. Competitors will vie for a piece of the $5 million prize along with a chance at launching their CubeSat to the Moon and beyond as a secondary payload on the first integrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}