{"id":21545,"date":"2022-04-03T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21545"},"modified":"2022-04-03T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:46:53","slug":"herox-launches-phase-2-of-nasas-watts-on-the-moon-to-source-power-transmission-and-energy-storage-solutions-for-lunar-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/herox-launches-phase-2-of-nasas-watts-on-the-moon-to-source-power-transmission-and-energy-storage-solutions-for-lunar-activities\/%20","title":{"rendered":"HeroX Launches Phase 2 of NASA&#8217;s &#8220;Watts on the Moon&#8221; to Source Power Transmission and Energy Storage Solutions for Lunar Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herox.com\/?utm_source=prnewswire&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=WattsOnTheMoon\">HeroX<\/a> recently launched the NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herox.com\/WattsOnTheMoon\">Watts on the Moon<\/a> Phase 2 Challenge prize competition on behalf of NASA. In support of the agency&#8217;s return to the Moon under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis\/\">Artemis<\/a>, which will establish a long-term human presence at the Moon, NASA seeks innovative engineering approaches that will integrate power transmission and energy storage to support astronauts, hardware, and systems in the extremely challenging thermal and lighting conditions on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Up to $4.5M in Prizes to Support Sustained Presence on the Moon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/heroX.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21546\" width=\"316\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/heroX.jpg 400w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/heroX-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><figcaption>Up to $4.5M in Prizes to Support Sustained Presence on the Moon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As Jim Reuter, Associate Administrator for NASA&#8217;s Space Technology Mission Directorate stated in NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/centennial_challenges\/second-phase-open-of-5-million-lunar-power-prize-competition.html\">release<\/a>, &#8220;Challenges like Watts on the Moon give us the chance to utilize the creativity of industry, academia, and the public to power our return to the Moon. I look forward to seeing how their solutions may also have important applications here on Earth and help advance similar technologies for terrestrial application and commercialization.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A long-term presence on the Moon will require lunar surface\npower systems that can deliver continuous, reliable power to support various\nindustrial activities and human habitation. NASA has identified two specific\nareas in need of improvement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Power Transmission<\/strong> that can deliver power\nfrom a remote generation source to critical mission operation loads where (1)\npower loads are frequently or permanently immersed in extreme cold and (2)\nthere are large variations in average power loads versus peak power loads. NASA\nhas significant interest in both wired and wireless transmission, and the\nChallenge seeks to incentivize and demonstrate both types of solutions.<\/li><li><strong>Energy Storage<\/strong> that can (1) power mission\noperation loads when intermittent power generation is not available and (2)\nsurvive and operate in extreme cold environments.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Phase 1 of Watts launched in September 2020 and focused on\nthe ideation of energy management, distribution, and storage solutions. In May\n2021, seven winners were awarded a total of $500,000 in prize purses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because Phase 1 showed that there are a number of promising\napproaches to address this need, Phase 2 will be launched to allow these\napproaches and others an opportunity to vie for part of the $4.5M prize purse\nto develop and demonstrate their performance in simulated lunar conditions.\nPhase 2 is a three-level competition that will award up to 17 prizes across the\nchallenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is exciting to collaborate with NASA on solving\nproblems of this nature,&#8221; says Kal K. Sahota, HeroX. &#8220;Any advancement\nin lunar technology is important in its own right, but these developments in\npower transmission and energy storage may have an outsized impact on our\nplanet, too. This could be the next &#8216;giant leap for mankind&#8217; in more ways than\none.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Challenge<\/strong>: The Watts on the Moon Challenge is a\n$5 million, two-phase competition focused on addressing critical gaps in lunar\nsurface power systems, specifically related to power transmission and energy\nstorage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA is seeking solutions that can be designed, built, and\nthen tested in simulated lunar conditions and are well-positioned to progress\ntoward flight readiness and future operation on the lunar surface after the\nchallenge.&nbsp; The first phase of the\nchallenge presented a mission scenario with three mission activities. Teams\nchose one or more activities to address by proposing an energy distribution,\nmanagement, and\/or storage solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This current second phase presents competitors with a\nconceptual power load profile and environmental conditions intended to\nrepresent part of a lunar mission.&nbsp; Teams\nmust design and build a solution that delivers the required power, optimizes\nmass and efficiency and is demonstrable within the challenge timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Prize<\/strong>: NASA will award a total prize purse of\n$4.5M to winners over three levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligibility to Compete and Win Prize(s)<\/strong>: Individuals\nmust be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States and be 18\nyears of age or older. Organizations must be an entity incorporated in and\nmaintaining a primary place of business in the United States (some restrictions\napply).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To accept the challenge, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herox.com\/WattsOnTheMoon\">https:\/\/www.herox.com\/WattsOnTheMoon<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HeroX recently launched the NASA&#8217;s Watts on the Moon Phase 2 Challenge prize competition on behalf of NASA. In support of the agency&#8217;s return to the Moon under Artemis, which will establish a long-term human presence at the Moon, NASA seeks innovative engineering approaches that will integrate power transmission and energy storage to support astronauts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21547,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21545\/revisions\/21547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}