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NASA Space Apps 2026 challenge

Flame in Freefall: AI-Powered Fire Safety Insights from Microgravity Combustion Data

IntermediateAdvanced

Subjects: Space Exploration

Image of a flame burning one of the BASS tests on extinguishing burning fuels.
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Summary

For decades, NASA has studied how flames and fire behave in microgravity, gathering a trove of experimental data along the way. That knowledge matters more than ever as humans gear up to return to the Moon and press on to Mars, yet the volume of results makes them hard to find, compare, and understand. Your challenge is to create an interactive, AI-powered dashboard that summarizes, ranks, and interprets those findings to deliver fire safety insights for human space exploration.

The full challenge statement, with its data and resources, is published on 28 October. Until then, you can read this summary, talk it over with your team and plan, but the Space Apps rules say no work on the project itself before the hackathon starts.

From the NASA Space Apps Challenge. The official page is the final word on this challenge.