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"NASA Space to Soil Challenge" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
NASA Space to Soil Challenge is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO). This prize competition funds innovative solutions applying space-derived data to improve agricultural soil health on Earth.
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By pushing more intelligence onboard, missions can move from passively collecting data to actively interpreting and responding to changing surface conditions in near-real time, enabling more targeted observations and dramatically improving the value of data returned to the ground.
Within this context, land-focused applications such as regenerative agriculture, sustainable forestry, and broader land resilience efforts stand to benefit enormously from satellites that can adapt what, when, and how they sense based on dynamic environmental signals and algorithmic insight rather than fixed schedules or static acquisition plans.
NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) invites participants to design small satellite (SmallSat) mission concepts that leverage adaptive sensing and onboard processing to enhance regenerative agriculture, forestry, or a similar land resilience objective.
Participants must work within onboard power, compute, and bandwidth constraints characteristic of SmallSat missions, focusing on how to orchestrate existing land observation algorithms into an efficient, responsive onboard intelligence layer. Both hardware-oriented and software-oriented solutions—or combinations of the two—are encouraged.
NASA’s primary objective for this challenge is to advance computational and systems approaches for adaptive sensing or onboard processing on SmallSat missions. The goal is not to develop new agricultural or forestry science but rather to improve how SmallSats sense, process, and deliver information to enable these applications.
Award: $400,000 in total prizes Challenge Open Date: January 30, 2026 Submission Close Date: May 4, 2026 For more information, visit: https://nasa-space-to-soil. org/
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible participants include researchers, students, startups, and small businesses. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $400,000 in total prizes. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was May 4, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
NASA Space to Soil Challenge is funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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