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NASA has named three Winners of the Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge.
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Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge No. 1
Develop sensing systems that can detect terrain hazards in the dark.
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Advancing Landing Capabilities
To support future missions, NASA seeks to advance the affordability and reduce the complexity of precision landing capabilities to deliver spacecraft to safe landing locations, particularly when the terrain is hazardous and lighting conditions are challenging.
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Do you have a sensing system that could be capable of sensing terrain in the dark from an altitude of 250 meters or higher to help identify hazards and safe landing sites for spacecraft? We would love to know about it! You must first register no later than Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 5:00 PM Pacific.
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About Flight Opportunities
Flight Opportunities rapidly demonstrates technologies for space exploration, discovery, and the expansion of space commerce through suborbital testing with industry flight providers. The program matures capabilities needed for NASA missions and commercial applications while strategically investing in the growth of the U.S. commercial spaceflight industry.

These flight tests take technologies from ground-based laboratories into relevant environments to increase technology readiness and validate feasibility while reducing the costs and technical risks of future missions.

Awards and agreements for flight test are open to researchers from industry, academia, non-profit research institutes, and government organizations. These investments help advance technologies of interest to NASA while supporting commercial flight providers and expanding space-based applications and commerce. NASA encourages participation from teams who may not have previously engaged in other NASA funding opportunities.
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