The planet below is live.
Real satellite imagery, tonight's day-and-night line, the International Space Station right now, and every wildfire NASA detected yesterday. This is the data you will build with. It all begins on Friday, November 13 at 16:00 with the kick-off, orientation and networking with our sponsors, before the 48-hour hackathon on November 14-15.
Register for the eventStart with Earth.
Six of this year's fourteen challenges are about our own planet: fire hot spots, surface change from radar, farming under shifting climate, long-term trends, and turning it all into something people want to explore.
Plan the return.
Commercial landers are heading for the lunar south pole, where light and communications are brutal. Browse the missions, find the places on Earth that look like a Moon base, and tell the story of the hardware already left behind.
Survive the red planet.
Decades of rovers and landers have mapped Mars. Turn that into a survival guide, or design the whole mission yourself.
Your move, Lucerne.
From a billion infrared objects mapped by SPHEREx to the health of astronauts and the behavior of fire in freefall: join us for the kick-off on Friday, November 13 at 16:00 for orientation and networking with our sponsors, then pick a challenge, form a team, and ship something over the weekend of November 14-15, 2026.
Mission Team
Volunteers and advisors from SSIP and the Lucerne space community, organizing the NASA Space Apps Challenge in Lucerne.
Mission Sponsors
Our sponsors and partners make the event free for every participant. Meet them at the kick-off on Friday, November 13 at 16:00.
