.Editor's note: This media advisory was actually upgraded Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, with a correct phone number for the media call at NASA's Glenn Proving ground.NASA's Watts on the Moon Problem, developed to advance the nation's lunar exploration objectives under the Artemis campaign through testing USA pioneers to create innovation electrical power transmission and also electricity storage modern technologies that can enable long-duration Moon missions, ends on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland." For rocketeers to preserve a sustained presence on the Moon during the course of Artemis goals, they will definitely require ongoing, reliable energy," said Kim Krome-Sieja, behaving course manager, Centennial Problems at NASA's Marshall Area Tour Facility in Huntsville, Alabama. "NASA has actually performed considerable focus on power production modern technologies. Right now, our experts're wanting to advance these innovations for long-distance energy transmission and power storage remedies that can easily resist the harsh cold weather of the lunar setting.".The modern technologies developed with the Watts on the Moon Difficulty were the very first power transmission and also energy storage space prototypes to become tested through NASA in an atmosphere that imitates the harsh cool and weak air pressure of the lunar surface area, representing a 1st step to prepping the innovations for future release on the Moon. Successful modern technologies coming from this difficulty purpose to encourage, as an example, brand-new approaches for helping batteries tolerate chilly temperatures and strengthening network resiliency in remote sites in the world that deal with rough weather.Media as well as the public are invited to join the marvelous finale innovation display as well as awards ceremony for the $5 million, two-phase competitors. USA and also global media thinking about covering the event ought to affirm their participation with Lane Figueroa by 3 p.m. CDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at: lane.e.figueroa@nasa.gov. NASA's media accreditation policy is actually available online. Members of the general public might register as a participant by finishing this form, likewise through Friday, Sept. 17.In the course of the final round of competitors, finalist staffs honed their hardware and also supplied a total device prototype for screening in substitute lunar ailments at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The examination substitute a daunting energy device circumstance where there are six hrs of photovoltaic daylight, 18 hours of night, as well as the user is 3 kilometers coming from the power source." Watts on the Moon was actually an amazing competition to judge because of its own unique objective instance," said Amy Kaminski, program exec, Prizes, Problems, and Crowdsourcing, Space Innovation Goal Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Each staff's hardware was actually tested versus complicated standards as well as needed to execute well within a lunar atmosphere in our state-of-the-art thermal vacuum cleaner chambers at NASA Glenn.".Each finalist staff was recorded based on Total Effective Unit Mass (TESM), which establishes just how the body functions in connection to its own mass. At the honors service, NASA will honor $1 million to the top team who achieves the lowest TESM rating, meaning that during testing, that crew's system produced the best reliable output-to-mass proportion. The crew along with the second cheapest mass will receive $500,000. The honors service flow reside on NASA Glenn's YouTube stations and also NASA Prize's Facebook page.The Watts on the Moon Difficulty is a NASA Centennial Difficulty led through NASA Glenn. NASA Marshall deals with Centennial Obstacles, which become part of the agency's Prizes, Obstacles, and Crowdsourcing system in the Area Innovation Goal Directorate. NASA has contracted HeroX to sustain the administration of the difficulty.For more details on NASA's Watts on the Moon Problem, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov/wattson.- end-.Jasmine HopkinsHeadquarters, Washington321-432-4624jasmine.s.hopkins@nasa.gov.Street FigueroaMarshall Room Trip Facility, Huntsville, Ala.256-932-1940lane.e.figueroa@nasa.gov.Brian NewbacherGlenn Research Center, Cleveland216-469-9726brian.t.newbacher@nasa.gov.