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Nasus cube quest Centennial challenge

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hopes to accelerate the technological

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capabilities tiny satellites known as

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cube sets that may help the space agency

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achieve future mission goals faster and

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more affordably many modern technologies

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help us while we go about our daily

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lives weather forecasting faster

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internet genres cellphone signals

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worldwide communications aerial view

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maps navigation and many many more

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all through the use of satellites but

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satellites are big and expensive

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especially we include the cost of

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getting them into space cube SATs

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however are changing all of that thanks

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to shrinking electronic components and

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miniaturize sensors things we used to

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rely on larger satellites to do can now

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be done with much smaller ones these

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satellites are called cubes s because

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they're literally shaped like that cubes

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just a bit larger than your average

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coffee mug a 1u size cube set is 10 by

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10 by 10 centimeters build a frame twice

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that size you get a 2 you set a

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satellite that's equivalent to six cubes

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is called a 16 cube set and so on nasa

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sees cube sets as unique tools for space

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exploration a cooperative group of cube

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sets could simultaneously make

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measurements over a large region for

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example tracking a Marshall weather

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system in a ways that a single

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conventional satellite couldn't

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what's more tiny cube sets typically are

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much more affordable in comparison to

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their larger counterparts they can take

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less time and cost much less to put

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together and test their small cube-like

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architecture means Cube sets take up

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less space in a launch vehicle require

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less fuel to get into space and are

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easier to deploy instead of launching

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only one satellite on a single rocket we

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compact fifteen or twenty Cube sets as

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hitchhikers along with a larger payload

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so far Cube sets have mostly been

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limited to operations in low-earth orbit

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but that's about to change

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NASA's Centennial Challenges wants to

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encourage people to come up with unique

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innovative ways to use or better yet

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create technologies that will take Cube

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sets Bowl

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where none have gone for the cube quest

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challenge reaches out to amateur

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inventors and technology enthusiasts to

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deliver Cube sets that can get to the

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moon and beyond the cube quest challenge

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offers cash prizes to qualified teams

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that can achieve any of several stated

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objectives in space part of the 5.5

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million dollars in prize money goes to

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the teams that successfully achieve a

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stable orbit around the moon a feat

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never before accomplished by a CubeSat

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doing so requires teams to successfully

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deliver solutions to challenges in

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navigation propulsion command and

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control that are unique to satellites

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venturing beyond Earth orbit Centennial

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Challenges also aims to encourage

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solutions to long-distance

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communications challenges so there are

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prizes for competitors whose Cube sets

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communicate at the fastest rate and

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transmit the largest amount of data over

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a limited time then we push CubeSat

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technology even further by offering

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other cash prizes to competitors who can

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communicate with their CubeSat from the

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farthest distance at least 4 million

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kilometers that's more than 10 times

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further than the moon there's also a

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prize for the CubeSat that's able to

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survive the longest in deep space

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NASA's cube quest Centennial challenge

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is open to anyone that wants to compete

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you think you can solve the problem well

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we will to see your solution

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just head to nasa.gov slash winning for

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more information about the Q Quest

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challenge and our other challenges B

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Park Centennial Challenges as we