Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Michigan Technological University’s Planetary Surface Technology Development Lab (PSTDL) was one of four teams recently selected to advance to the final round of NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, which asked teams from around the country to design new technologies for storing, distributing, and managing energy for use throughout the lunar day/night cycle. All four teams received a $400,000 award and a chance to compete for a share of the competition’s grand prizes: $1 million for the winner and $500,000 for the runner-up. The PSTDL team will now get the chance to prove their design for a lunar power management system to NASA engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. They call their solution TEMPEST — the TEthered Mechanism for Persistent Energy Storage and Transmission.
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Read the full story here: https://www.mtu.edu/news/2023/06/pstdl-advances-to-final-round-of-nasa-watts-on-the-moon-challenge.html
Learn more about PSTDL Lab: https://huskyworks.space/
#TomorrowNeeds #MichiganTech #NASA #Artemis #Shorts
Michigan Technological University’s Planetary Surface Technology Development Lab (PSTDL) was one of four teams recently selected to advance to the final round of NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge, which asked teams from around the country to design new technologies for storing, distributing, and managing energy for use throughout the lunar day/night cycle. All four teams received a $400,000 award and a chance to compete for a share of the competition’s grand prizes: $1 million for the winner and $500,000 for the runner-up. The PSTDL team will now get the chance to prove their design for a lunar power management system to NASA engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. They call their solution TEMPEST — the TEthered Mechanism for Persistent Energy Storage and Transmission.
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Read the full story here: https://www.mtu.edu/news/2023/06/pstdl-advances-to-final-round-of-nasa-watts-on-the-moon-challenge.html
Learn more about PSTDL Lab: https://huskyworks.space/
#TomorrowNeeds #MichiganTech #NASA #Artemis #Shorts
