Tech Flights 2021 is Now Open! Seeking Space, Suborbital, and Climate-Focused Technologies
Today, NASA released the 2021 Tech Flights solicitation. Tech Flights offers funding opportunities to researchers from U.S.-based industry, academia, and private research institutions to rapidly test promising technologies on commercial suborbital vehicles with awards up to $650,000 per awardee.
Through NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, awardees receive a grant or cooperative agreement allowing them to purchase flights directly from any eligible U.S. commercial flight provider that best suits their technology demonstration.
Topics for the 2021 solicitation are:
Topic 1: Supporting National Efforts at the Moon and in Cislunar Space, Inclusive of Human and Robotic Exploration and Scientific Discovery
Topic 2: Earth-Observing Capabilities to Support Breakthrough Science and National Efforts to Address Climate Change
Topic 3: Technologies that Ensure National Leadership in Space and Help the Commercial Space Industry Grow
Examples of technologies that address these topics and much more information can be found in the full Tech Flights 2021 solicitation.
Important Dates*
- Q&A Session: July 14, 2021, 10 a.m. PDT (Information about how to attend will be posted to the solicitation page.)
- Mandatory preliminary proposals due: July 26, 2021
- Full proposals (by invitation) due: October 4, 2021
- Awardee Selections: December 2021 (target)
- Awards Made: February 2022 (target)
We look forward to seeing your proposals!
*Dates are subject to change.
