NASA launches Orbital Clarity Challenge

NASA launched the Orbital Clarity Challenge, the sixth in its TechLeap awards series, as a collaborative effort between its Heliophysics Division, Flight Opportunities programme and Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation.

By El Medio Oriente
August 26, 2026
An astronaut in a white spacesuit standing on the lunar surface next to a lunar lander with gold solar panels and metal structures, against a black sky.
Illustration. A historic lunar landing mission with an astronaut on the Moon's surface, demonstrating NASA's space exploration capabilities. (Foto: Neil Armstrong / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain))
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The Orbital Clarity Challenge, the sixth in NASA's TechLeap Prize series, is a collaborative effort between NASA's Heliophysics Division, the Flight Opportunities programme and the Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation.

The Heliophysics Division studies space weather, including how solar activity heats and expands Earth's outer atmosphere during intense solar activity, creating orbital drag through changes in atmospheric density.

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