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Find similar grantsNASA TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge is sponsored by NASA Flight Opportunities Program. A challenge to develop technologies for robotically manipulated payloads in space missions.
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Your browser does not support the video tag. Challenges designed to advance space technologies through rapid testing with industry flight providers Help NASA’s Flight Opportunities program accelerate space exploration, discovery, and the expansion of space commerce. Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge Submissions open • 2026-present Advancing persistent infrastructure for in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing.
Learn more about the Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge Space Technology Payload Challenge Flight Testing Summer 2026 • 2024-present Advancing solutions that address NASA technology shortfalls to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs.
Learn more about the Space Technology Payload Challenge Universal Payload Interface Challenge Currently at Build Round 2 • 2023-present Advancing flight-ready universal payload interfaces that enable easy integration of diverse space payloads into various flight vehicles.
Learn more about the Universal Payload Interface Challenge Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge Advancing precision landing capabilities to deliver spacecraft to safe landing locations in close proximity to targeted exploration sites.
Learn more about the Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge Autonomous Observation Challenge Advancing observation capabilities through networks of spacecraft, suborbital, and ground-based sensors working cooperatively.
Learn more about the Autonomous Observation Challenge NASA’s Flight Opportunities program rapidly demonstrates promising technologies for space exploration, discovery, and the expansion of space commerce through suborbital and hosted orbital 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. Visit NASA’s Flight Opportunities program website
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Applications for NASA TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge are due August 12, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
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NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program is a grant from NVIDIA providing up to $60,000 per award to PhD students conducting research that advances accelerated computing and its applications. Now in its 25th year, the program invites nominations from doctoral students pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Recipients receive not only research funding but also access to NVIDIA technology, products, and engineering expertise, along with a mandatory in-person summer internship. Students are nominated by their faculty advisors and selected based on academic achievement and research area alignment.
CalSEED Concept Award is a grant from the California Energy Commission that provides $150,000 in funding to early-stage clean energy innovators in California. The program targets individuals, businesses, and nonprofits developing hardware, software, or integrated solutions at Technology Readiness Levels 2-4. Eligible technology areas rotate each cycle and have included battery recycling and reuse, long-duration energy storage, medium- and heavy-duty vehicle electrification, industrial electrification, and advanced EV charging. Applicants must be located in California, have under $1 million in private funding, and propose innovations that benefit California ratepayers. Concept Award winners also receive professional development resources and access to accelerator programs, and may compete for a subsequent $450,000 Prototype Award.
In January 2026, DOE Policy Flash PF-2026-30 wiped out every 15% and 10% indirect cost cap the administration had imposed in 2025 — because H.R. 6938 ordered it to. The same law froze indirect policy at NSF, Commerce and NASA. But OMB's sweeping new grants rule quietly reopens the fight through the back door. Here is what changed, what money recipients can claw back, and how to protect your indirect recovery going forward.
Read articleFor Program Year 2026, NASA replaced its single January SBIR/STTR solicitation with a Broad Agency Announcement that releases topics in appendices throughout the year — with proposal limits resetting each time. Phase I awards now run up to $225,000. Here is what the structural shift means, why it favors prepared companies, and how to build a year-round SBIR strategy around it.
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