MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico, Oct. 28, 2026 - The NOVA student team from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez has won NASA's ORBIT competition and a $50,000 prize.

The engineering students' project is a reusable technology for building on the Moon. NotiCel reports that the win also brought interest from NASA in collaborating with the team.

Space Nugget. Every kilogram launched to the Moon is expensive, so long-term lunar plans depend on hardware that can be reused and on building with as little brought from Earth as possible.