›NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2019

Since its inception in 2012, NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge has become the world’s largest global hackathon, engaging thousands of citizens across the globe to use NASA’s open data to build innovative solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space.

Space Apps inspires local communities to come together, think intensely, and create solutions to important problems. Each year, Space Apps engages thousands of individuals in cities around the world to work with NASA’s open source data in a 48-hour sprint. Teams of technologists, scientists, designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and others collaborate to answer some of the most pressing challenges on Earth and in space.

How does Space Apps work?

On one weekend each year, with the help of NASA’s Global Organizing Team (fondly known as the GO Team), hundreds of local leads around the world host events in a 48-hour sprint in which their participants hack solutions to challenges that NASA proposes, creating games, smartphone and computer apps, videos, teaching tools, and much more.

The challenges change each year within the theme of Earth and space. Some of the most popular challenges last year included subjects ranging from autonomous spacecraft inspection, to monitoring disasters, to exploring the beauty of the Universe.

WHEN IS SPACE APPS 2019?

Space Apps 2019 will be held at all locations the weekend of October 18-20, 2019. Some locations hold pre-event meetups in the period leading up to Space Apps weekend so that participants can meet one another and learn valuable skills.

WHERE IS SPACE APPS?

Find a Space Apps event being held near you by browsing our Location pages (coming soon). If you don’t see a physical location near you, attend our Virtual Event!

Registering for the Space Apps Virtual Event will allow you to collaborate with any of the other Virtual Event attendees to form teams and create projects that answer this year’s challenges. You will be able to chat virtually with NASA experts during hackathon weekend, and you’ll be eligible for global judging by NASA just like anyone at a physical Space Apps location.