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Description:
Through the BIG Idea Challenge, NASA seeks innovative ideas from the academic community for a wide range of lunar dust mitigation solutions for issues including reducing dust clouds upon landing, dust removal from spacesuits and other surfaces, dust obstruction of optical systems, and reducing in-cabin particulate levels, among others. Specifically, teams are invited to propose innovative solutions with supporting original engineering and analysis in response to one of the following areas:

Landing Dust Prevention and Mitigation - to preclude or protect from plume/surface interactions which may result in damaged landers and nearby surface assets.

Spacesuit Dust Tolerance and Mitigation - to limit dust adherence to spacesuits and other deleterious effects to its subsystems.

Exterior Dust Prevention, Tolerance, and Mitigation -to protect lunar surface systems or preclude dust from entering habitats and landers.

Cabin Dust Tolerance and Mitigation - to clean habitable volumes and their interior surfaces, which helps prevent dust from making it back to Gateway and Orion when the lander returns to lunar orbit from the surface.


Application Deadline: 9/25/2020
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