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NASA Announces Ten Winners of the TechLeap Prize: Space Technology Payload Challenge!
The ten TechLeap Prize winners will be awarded prizes of 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 in summer 2026 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.
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