美国国家航天局（NASA）邀请媒体参加在阿拉巴马州举行的 LunaRecycle 挑战赛决赛活动

美国国家航天局（NASA）将于8月28日（周五）在位于阿拉巴马州塔斯卡卢萨的阿拉巴马大学（UA）Lee Styslinger 工程学院宣布其 LunaRecycle 挑战赛最后阶段的获胜者。该挑战赛于2024年启动，旨在激励发明新型回收系统，以支持未来月球任务中的非代谢废物管理工作。

NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its LunaRecycle Challenge on Friday, Aug. 28, at The University of Alabama (UA) Lee Styslinger College of Engineering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Launched in 2024, the challenge incentivizes the invention of new recycling systems that could support non-metabolic waste management efforts for future lunar missions.

媒体和公众受邀参加本次挑战赛的技术展示会和获胜者宣布仪式，届时多达14支决赛入围团队将展示他们的解决方案，并听取 NASA 和 UA 领导层关于月球创新未来的发言。开幕致辞将于8月28日上午8:30在 UA 校园 H.M. Comer Hall 的房宿（Room）1026室开始。

Media and the public are invited to the challenge’s Technology Showcase and Winners Announcement, where up to 14 finalist teams will showcase their solutions and hear from NASA and UA leadership about the future of lunar innovation. Opening remarks will begin at 8:30 a.m. CDT on Aug. 28, in Room 1026 of H.M. Comer Hall on the UA campus.

有意报道此次活动的媒体应在8月27日（周三）下午3点前通过 [email protected] 向 NASA 马歇尔空间中心（Marshall Space Flight Center）新闻办公室确认出席。

Media interested in covering the event should confirm their attendance with the NASA Marshall newsroom by 3 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 27, at: [email protected].

LunaRecycle 挑战赛是一项奖金为300万美元、分两个阶段进行的竞赛，专注于设计和开发能够减少非代谢废物并提高长期月球任务可持续性的回收解决方案。在第2阶段的决赛中，受邀团队的任务是完善其原型机和数字孪生概念，为本月初在塔斯卡卢萨 McAbee Construction 进行的现场测试做准备。

The LunaRecycle Challenge is a $3 million, two-phase competition focused on the design and development of recycling solutions that can reduce non-metabolic waste and improve the sustainability of longer-term lunar missions. In the Final Round of Phase 2, invited teams were tasked with refining their prototype and digital twin concepts in preparation for live testing at McAbee Construction in Tuscaloosa earlier this month.

此次活动结束后，多达11支团队将因其原型机和数字孪生解决方案获得 NASA 提供的总计132.5万美元奖金池中的一部分。排名前两位的原型机将分别获得50万美元和22.5万美元，排名前两位的数字孪生方案将分别获得27.5万美元和12.5万美元。评审团将在最终审议期间确定获奖类别，并向表现优异的团队颁发多达6个技术成就奖。此外，在整个技术展示期间获得公众和利益相关者投票最多的团队将获得2.5万美元的人气奖。

After this event, up to 11 teams will receive a portion of the $1.325 million prize purse from NASA for their prototype and digital twin solutions. The top two prototypes will earn $500,00 and $225,000, while top two digital twins will receive $275,000 and $125,000. Up to six Technical Achievement Prizes will be awarded to teams who excel in categories determined by the judging panel during final deliberations. Additionally, a $25,000 People’s Choice Award will be presented to the team who receives the most votes from the public and stakeholders throughout the Technology Showcase.

获胜者名单将在中午12点开始的技术展示闭幕式上现场宣布。

Winners will be announced live during the Technology Showcase closing ceremony, which begins at 12 p.m.

LunaRecycle 挑战赛由 NASA 马歇尔空间中心（Marshall Space Flight Center）的“百年挑战”（Centennial Challenges）项目管理，该项目隶属于 NASA 研究与技术任务局（Research and Technology Mission Directorate）下的“奖项、挑战与众包”（Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing）计划。NASA 的“百年挑战”拥有超过20年的历史，致力于动员公众解决有益于 NASA 更广泛倡议的复杂问题。过去的挑战赛推动了机器人技术、增材制造、动力与能源、纺织、化学和生物学领域的进步。

The LunaRecycle Challenge is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center by Centennial Challenges, part of the Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program within NASA’s Research and Technology Mission Directorate. NASA’s Centennial Challenges have a legacy of more than 20 years engaging the public to solve complex problems that benefit NASA’s broader initiatives. Past challenges have spurred advances in robotics, additive manufacturing, power and energy, textiles, chemistry, and biology.

竞赛的第1阶段收到了全球创新者社区创纪录的关注。该挑战赛收到了超过1200份注册申请——超过了“百年挑战”20年历史中任何一次竞赛的注册数——由50名评委组成的评审团评估了近200份提交方案。共有17支团队被选为第1阶段的获胜者，代表了5个国家和美国9个州，获奖名单已通过 NASA 马歇尔空间中心（Marshall Space Flight Center）的 YouTube 频道直播宣布。

Phase 1 of the competition received record-breaking interest from the global innovator community. The challenge received more than 1,200 registrations – more than any competition in the 20-year history of Centennial Challenges – and a panel of 50 judges evaluated nearly 200 submissions. Seventeen teams were selected as Phase 1 winners, representing five countries and nine U.S. states, announced via livestream on NASA Marshall’s YouTube channel.

LunaRecycle 挑战赛还得到了位于佛罗里达州的 NASA 肯尼迪空间中心（Kennedy Space Center）和位于加利福尼亚州硅谷的 NASA 艾姆斯研究中心（Ames Research Center）的回收领域专家的支持。阿拉巴马大学 Lee J. Styslinger Jr. 工程学院与 NASA 合作执行该挑战赛。

The LunaRecycle Challenge also is supported by recycling subject matter experts at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The University of Alabama Lee J. Styslinger Jr. College of Engineering executes the challenge in partnership with NASA.

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