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Nasa has unveiled its latest innovation competition, the LunaRecycle Challenge, offering a $3 million prize pool for groundbreaking solutions in recycling material waste on deep space missions.

This initiative aims to support Nasa's long-term goals of sustained human presence on the Moon and future deep space exploration.

The challenge focuses on developing energy-efficient, low-mass, and low-impact recycling technologies to process inorganic waste streams such as food packaging, discarded clothing, and science experiment materials.

Unlike previous efforts that concentrated on reducing trash mass and volume, LunaRecycle prioritises recycling waste into usable products for off-planet science and exploration activities.

The competition features two tracks: a Prototype Build track for designing hardware components and systems, and a Digital Twin track for creating virtual replicas of complete recycling systems.

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