NASA's BIG Idea Challenge is an annual whitepaper competition in which university students develop breakthrough, innovative, and game-changing designs for futuristic space technologies. This year, our challenge is to design a Martian surface solar array to generate at least 40 kW for human use in the 2030s.
Solar/Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Earth/Planetary Science
Physics, Math
Chemistry, Materials Science
Data Analysis, Operations Research