As we started to detail NASA’s Space Apps challenges for this year in our previous article (Part One), let’s continue to explore the other categories.
Our Moon
The Moon has been an inspiration for mythical stories, tales of adventure and romance throughout human history! This category provides you with NASA data related to our neighbor for finding creative solutions to certain challenges. The challenges in this category are as follows:
- Dust yourself off
- Eny, meeny, miney, sample
- The art side of the Moon
The details of these challenges can be read here:
http://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/our-moon/
Planets near and far
Fans of interplanetary travel rejoice! This category provides you with NASA data on our neighboring planets and asks you to solve different challenges based on the exploration of planetary systems, near and far from our home planet! The challenges are:
- Build a planet
- Out of this world
- The Memory-Maker
- Chasers of the lost data
The details of these challenges can be read here:
http://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/planets-near-and-far/
To the Stars
This category goes a step ahead of the previous one, it provides the participants with an opportunity to study and explore the vast Universe with their Scientific, technologic and artistic viewpoints! It allows you to design space missions with an entrepreneurial and creative mindset. The categories are:
- Fly by wireless
- Orbital scrap metal-video game
- The Trans-Neptunian spaceway
- Up, out and away
Invent your own challenge
This final category allows you to go full-throttle with your creativity! It gives you the freedom to create your own challenge and apply it to any Space problem. This is an exciting way to show-off your space science and technology prowess!
So these are the categories in the NASA Space Apps challenge 2019. We hope to see you at work solving challenges and taking the next giant leap at this global event!
The details of these challenges can be read here: http://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/stars/
Waniya Khursheed is a student of Space science at Karachi University, She is working as Event Manager at RaheQamar. She is working to promote space sciences in Pakistan. She hopes that one day Pakistan will play an active part in the Global Space industry.
