Space Prizes

prizes to inspire space technology achievements

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

$25,000 Prize Proposal Contest

X PRIZE Foundation Announces $25,000 Contest on YouTube: “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea?” - X PRIZE Foundation press release

X-Prize Goes Energy—With “Crazy Green Idea” Prize to Debut at MIT Today - Xconomy Boston
Crazy Green Idea - YouTube
Posted by Ray at 9:22 PM
Labels: Energy and Environment prizes
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  • Regolith Excavation Challenge
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Just a Reflection

Just a Reflection

Space Prizes

  • X PRIZE Foundation
  • The Launch Pad (XPF Space)
  • Google Lunar X PRIZE
  • Ansari X PRIZE Contestants
  • Arkyd CubeSat Challenge
  • High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge
  • X PRIZE Cup
  • Heinlein Prize
  • NASA Centennial Challenges
  • NASA Innocentive Pavilion
  • The Carmack 100kft Micro Prize
  • XCOR Flight Prize
  • Space Florida SS2 Microgravity
  • SunSat Design Competition
  • CATS Prize (not won)
  • Moon is Me Lunar Mining
  • Mars ISRU Prize (in dvlpmnt)
  • Planetary Society Asteroid prize
  • Planetary Society Contests
  • America's Space Prize
  • Mission Ideas Contest
  • N-Prize (Nanosat)
  • FAA Space Access (in dvlpmnt)
  • Florida RLV Prize (in devlpmnt)
  • Commercial Space Wiki
  • NASA Tournament Lab
  • Google Earth KML Contest
  • Model Your Town
  • MiniSpaceWorld
  • Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
  • Astronaut Glove Challenge
  • MoonROx Challenge

Student Space Prizes

  • Competitions (OSGC Blog)
  • Essay Contests (OSGC Blog)
  • Teaching with Contests
  • Minority Innovation Challenges
  • FameLab Astrobiology
  • Spacelab Competition
  • SCAG Space Entrepreneurs
  • SCAG Zero-G Aerobatics
  • Skybox Out-of-the-Box Sat Images
  • eXploration Habitat Challenge
  • SpaceTech Engineering Design
  • Mars Education Challenge
  • NASA MAKE Challenge
  • Suborbital Researchers Contest
  • Caltech Space Challenge
  • NASA Waste Limitation Mgmt
  • SEDS HIgh Power Rocketry
  • SEDS Video Ad Contest
  • AIAA Deep Space Hab
  • AIAA Commercial ETO Plan
  • Experimental Sounding Rocket
  • DIME & WING (Drop Tower)
  • BalloonSat
  • Spaced Out Sports Challenge
  • Kids In Micro-g
  • Move an Asteroid
  • Optimus Prime Spinoff
  • No Boundaries
  • ASCE Earth and Space 2010
  • Thacher Contest
  • Geospatial Skills Contest
  • Moonbots
  • Microgravity Competition
  • Rice Business Plan Prizes
  • 8C Business Plan Competition
  • RASC-AL Robo-Ops
  • Top Stars (Hubble in Education)
  • ASME Design Competition
  • Spaceport America Competition?
  • Canadian Sat Design Challenge
  • UK Our Space Competition
  • Mars Society Rover Challenge
  • What If?
  • NASA Aeronautics contest
  • CanSat Competition
  • LEEM Cansat Competition
  • Cansat France
  • REXUS BEXUS
  • Lunabotics
  • Lunar Outpost Competition
  • TSGC Design Challenge
  • Pete Conrad Awards
  • NASA Means Business
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  • Team America Rocketry
  • Student Launch Initiative
  • University SLI
  • ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge
  • ESA SUCCESS Competition
  • ESA Essay Contest
  • Flight into the Future
  • Great Moonbuggy Race
  • Google Science Fair

Scholarship Competitions

  • Out of the Cradle List
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Reinventing Space
  • SmallSat
  • National Space Society
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  • AIAA
  • ESMD Systems Engineering

Space Art Prizes

  • Moon and Me K-12 Art Challenge
  • NanoSail-D Photo Contest
  • Yuri's Night Video Contest
  • NASA Earth Day Video Contest
  • MiniSpaceWorld
  • Catch a Star!
  • Garriott Student Patch Contest
  • NASA Future of Flight Art Contest
  • Mars Society Poster Contest
  • National Space Society Art Prize
  • NSS Banner Contest
  • SEDS Space Art Contest

Lunar X PRIZE Sites & Teams

  • Google Lunar X PRIZE
  • Registered Teams
  • GLXP in Google Earth
  • Angelicum Chile
  • ARCA
  • Astrobotic Tech
  • Barcelona Moon Team
  • EuroLuna
  • Team FREDNET
  • Independence-X
  • Team Indus
  • Team Italia
  • JURBAN
  • LunaTrex
  • Moon Express
  • Next Giant Leap
  • Odyssey Moon
  • Omega Envoy
  • Part Time Scientists
  • Penn State Lunar Lion
  • Team Phoenicia
  • Team Plan B
  • Puli Space
  • Rocket City Space Pioneers
  • Selenokhod
  • Team Space IL
  • SpaceMETA
  • STELLAR
  • SYNERGY MOON
  • White Label Space

NG Lunar Lander Sites & Teams

  • NG Lunar Lander Challenge
  • LLC in Google Earth
  • Acuity Technologies
  • Armadillo Aerospace
  • Masten Space Systems
  • Paragon Labs
  • Phoenicia
  • Speed Up
  • TrueZer0
  • Unreasonable Rocket

NanoSat Launch Sites and Teams

  • Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge
  • Challenge Seminar Presentations
  • Vog Rocket Builders

Sample Return Sites and Teams

  • Sample Return Robot Challenge
  • TouchTomorrow WPI Festival

Night Rover Sites and Teams

  • Night Rover Challenge

Regolith Sites & Teams

  • California Space Authority
  • Space Show Radio Interview
  • Technology Ranch
  • Terra Engineering/BFD
  • Duplex Engineering
  • UBC TREAD Robotics
  • Poiesis Research Inc.
  • SpaceMiners
  • Team Waldbaum
  • Paul's Robotics
  • Moon Diggers (Astrobotic)

Space Elevator Sites & Teams

  • Space Elevator Games
  • European Space Elevator Challenge
  • Spaceward Foundation
  • Space Elevator blog
  • Space Elevator Reference
  • Artsutanov & Pearson Prizes
  • LaserMotive
  • Kansas City Space Pirates
  • MClimber
  • Andromeda Connection
  • McGill Space Elevator
  • USST
  • RAMCO 1
  • Technology Tycoons
  • E-T-C
  • DeltaX

Space News

  • NewSpace Watch
  • Space for All
  • Cosmic Log
  • NASASpaceFlight.com
  • NASA Watch
  • NewSpace Journal
  • Selenian Boondocks
  • Space Politics
  • Spaceports
  • Transterrestrial Musings
  • Universe Today

Politics

  • Aeronautics and Space Prize Act (H.R. 4916)
  • NASA Innovation Fund and Sponsorship Act (H.R. 4308)
  • Reward Innovation In America Act (S. 1371)
  • NSF Inducement Prizes
  • Aldridge Commission section 3
  • CBO on Prizes
  • Patents or Targeted Prizes?
  • Centennial Challenge challenge
  • Knowledge Ecology International

Civil Aviation Prizes

  • Orteig Prize (Spirit of St. Louis)
  • Lindbergh Prize
  • Real World: Airliner Wing
  • Green Flight Challenge
  • Rocket Racing League
  • Aviation Prize History - Maryniak

Military Prizes

  • Air Force Innovation Pavilion
  • DARPA Shredder Challenge
  • DARPA Grand Challenge
  • DARPA Network Challenge
  • Wearable Power Prize
  • MOD Grand Challenge
  • Singapore TechX Challenge 2013

Unmanned Vehicle Student Prizes

  • Aerial Robotics
  • Outback Air Vehicle
  • Unmanned Air Systems
  • Robosub
  • Underwater Vehicle - Europe
  • Roboboat
  • Intelligent Ground Vehicle

Health/Medicine Prizes

  • Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE
  • Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE
  • Archon Genomics X PRIZE
  • Gotham Cancer Research Prize
  • Methuselah Mouse Prize
  • ALS Prize4Life
  • Medical Innovation Prizes

Energy/Environment Prizes

  • Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
  • Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE
  • PacX Ocean Robot Data Challenge
  • Prize Capital
  • Green Flight Challenge
  • Earth and Space Awards
  • Bill with Hybrid Electric Prize
  • DOE Lighting Prize
  • Saltire Marine Energy Prize
  • Virgin Earth Challenge
  • KPBC Prize for Green Innovation
  • H-Prize (Hydrogen)
  • Climate Leadership Challenge
  • MIT Clean Energy Prize
  • MIT MADMEC
  • Environment Contest List

Human Power Prizes

  • Human Powered Copter
  • Human Powered Flight
  • Human Powered Speed Prize

Other Prizes

  • Robot Competitions
  • Robotics Innovations
  • Future X PRIZEs
  • Challenge.gov
  • Google Map Maker
  • GeoVation
  • ChangeMakers
  • Google Project 10^100
  • Nanotech Prizes
  • Silver Extraction Prize
  • Android Handset Developer Prize
  • Ruckus Nation
  • Innovation Prize List
  • Big Fat Prize List

Occasional Prize Posts

  • Google Earth Blog
  • Planetary Defense
  • The Space Show
  • Spacehack
  • Maximizing Progress
  • Marooned - SF Mars Books
  • Flight Plan (XPF)
  • Mojave Skies

Open Innovation

  • Incentive2Innovate
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Innovation Exchange
  • Innocentive
  • NineSigma
  • Skild Intelligent Competitions
  • Idea Connection
  • ChallengePost

Papers

  • McKinsey & Company report
  • Prizes for Tech Innovation
  • Federal Eng/Science Prizes
  • (Dis)advantages of NASA Prizes
  • African Agriculture Prizes
  • Reward contracting
  • How effective are prizes?
  • Patents vs prizes
  • Perfecting Patent Prizes
  • Patents vs ex-post rewards
  • Climate change tech prizes
  • Inducement prize admin
  • prizes, patents, and buyouts

Ten Blog-Defining Posts

  • Space Applications
  • Favorite Prize Idea: Spot NEAs
  • NASA Future Prize Publicity
  • Energy/Environment & Space
  • Space and Non-Space X PRIZEs
  • Energy Victory and Prizes
  • All We Need is a Good Map
  • Griffin: Prizes, Suborbital, COTS
  • Replace Earmarks with Prizes
  • Scope of Commercial Space

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