The development team from Kyiv, NVS-know, has won the international hackathon organized by NASA, Space Apps Challenge 2024. This was announced by Roman Malkevych, the local lead of the event in Kyiv.
- This year, more than 90,000 people from different parts of the world participated in the competition, forming about 10,000 teams.
- Only the top 40 projects made it to the finals, from which NASA judges selected 10 global winners. The Ukrainian team won the "Galactic Impact" nomination.
- The NVS-knot team is developing a tool to assess planting conditions using soil moisture data from SMAP and evapotranspiration data from OpenET. The goal is to help farmers overcome the challenges associated with changing weather patterns, droughts, and floods.
- As a reminder, a total of three Ukrainian teams made it to the final list of the hackathon. The other two projects are starry sky visualizations by LazyVarenyky and exoplanet exploration chronicles by Craft Lab.
What is the NASA Space Apps Challenge?
The NASA Space Apps Challenge is an annual international hackathon held under the auspices of NASA since 2012. Participants from around the world receive a task from the space agency to propose innovative solutions in 48 hours.
The next NASA Space Apps Challenge hackathon will take place on October 4-5, 2025.
