Every 2026 Space Apps challenge, traced to the NASA data that can solve it.
Pick a challenge. See which datasets fit, whether they need a login, and code that runs in the first five minutes. Free, open source, and usable from your AI coding tool.
The map
Challenges on the left, the datasets suggested for them on the right. Hover or focus a challenge to trace its data.
- Abandoned but not Forgotten: Storytelling about NASA's Discarded Equipment on the Moon and Mars 5 datasets
- Be An Earth System Trend Detective! 5 datasets
- Build a Junior Astronaut Mission Trainer 5 datasets
- CLPS Lunar Mission Browser 5 datasets
- Create Health Monitoring Software for Astronauts on Space Missions 4 datasets
- Dancing with the SARs 5 datasets
- Field Shift: Adapting Farms with NASA Data 5 datasets
- Flame in Freefall: AI-Powered Fire Safety Insights from Microgravity Combustion Data 2 datasets
- Harmonization of MODIS and VIIRS Hot Spots 5 datasets
- Identify Earth Locations that Analog the Permanent Moon Base Locations and Mars 5 datasets
- Interplanetary Survival Guide: Martian Map 3 datasets
- Planet X and SPHEREx 3 datasets
- Space Mission Design Game 5 datasets
- The Earth Information Jukebox 5 datasets
Start with the problem
Each challenge page lists suggested datasets in order of usefulness, what access each one needs, and three things to do in your first hour.
Skip the login maze
Every dataset is marked by what it takes to reach it: nothing, a free API key, or a free Earthdata Login. Filter for data you can use right away.
Ask from your editor
Connect Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client and ask for a challenge's data, starter code, or a live NASA catalog search without leaving your project.
Dataset suggestions are mine, made from the challenge summaries released September 17. The full statements and official resource lists arrive October 28, and this site will be updated to match.