{"id":86655,"date":"2010-07-15T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-offers-2-million-prize-for-nanosatellite-competition\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T00:05:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:05:52","slug":"nasa-offers-2-million-prize-for-nanosatellite-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-offers-2-million-prize-for-nanosatellite-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Offers $2 Million Prize for Nanosatellite Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-14-10] <strong>NASA<\/strong> has initiated a nanosatellite Centennial Challenge contest, offering a prize purse of $2 million for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding, the agency announced July 13.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge involves placing a small satellite into Earth orbit twice in a week. NASA said the goals of this challenge are to stimulate innovations in low-cost launch technology and encourage creation of commercial nanosatellite delivery services.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cNASA sponsors prize competitions because the agency believes student teams, private companies of all sizes and citizen-inventors can provide creative solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation. Prize competitions are a proven way to foster technological competitiveness, new industries and innovation across America,\u201d NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun said in a statement. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NASA has conducted 19 competition events in six challenge areas since 2005&nbsp; and has awarded $4.5 million to 13 different teams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-14-10] NASA has initiated a nanosatellite Centennial Challenge contest, offering a prize purse of $2 million for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding, the agency announced July 13. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge involves placing a small satellite into Earth orbit twice in a week. NASA said the goals of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-86655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86655"}],"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=86655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}