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NASA's 2026 Lunabotics Challenge tipped off on Tuesday 19 May at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's Center for Space Education inside the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, where ten US college teams that survived the May 12-17 qualifying round at the University of Central Florida's Exolith Lab will spend three days running fully autonomous lunar excavators across the Artemis Arena's simulated regolith. Each rover must mine and place enough icy and dry simulant to construct a defensive berm protecting future Artemis surface infrastructure, with the winners walking away with NASA-named hardware grants and direct pipeline visibility into the agency's Marshall and Glenn engineering centres.
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