opportunity · opp-cosmic-c3-2026-27
COSMIC Capstone Challenge 2026–27
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- ID
- opp-cosmic-c3-2026-27
- Name
- COSMIC Capstone Challenge 2026–27
- Provider
- Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities
- Kind
- Student capstone and professional service
- Timing
- Registration is open for universities, mentors, and judges. The preferred registration deadline is September 11, 2026; late registration closes October 12 or earlier when 100 teams have registered. The season continues through April 2027 showcases and judging.
- Fit
- In-space servicing, assembly, manufacturing, construction, autonomous clusters, workforce, and bounded systems mentoring
- Status
- active; registration open
- Verified At
- 2026-07-26
- Current Until
- 2026-08-02
- Eligibility
- Student participation is limited to U.S.-based college students through class teams, clubs, directed study, or independent study. Track 6 is restricted to U.S. persons. The official page says mentors and judges must join COSMIC if they are not already members; registration, qualifications, service scope, and organizer approval remain separate requirements.
- Access Notes
- The six current tracks include orbital manufacturing and assembly, lunar operations, orbital servicing, in-space construction, in-space production for Earth, and autonomous space clusters. Mentor or judge service creates time, expertise, conflict, confidentiality, attribution, membership, export, and dual-use obligations; university and student participation has separate instructional and team-cap rules.
- Founder Action
- Monitor the student pathway for eligible teams and evaluate mentor or judge service only if a qualified person, bounded civil systems contribution, membership decision, time commitment, conflict review, and separate authorization exist; do not register, join, mentor, judge, sponsor, or imply a COSMIC relationship without authorization.
- Evidence Boundary
- The official COSMIC C3 page supports the open registration status, current tracks, September 11 preferred and October 12 late deadlines, 100-team cap, U.S.-based college-student limit, U.S.-persons-only Track 6, and COSMIC-membership condition for mentors and judges. It does not establish student, mentor, judge, university, or sponsor eligibility, acceptance, assignment, capacity, confidentiality terms, intellectual-property treatment, export status, or relationship.
- Relationship
- indexed only; no formal relationship
- Action Status
- proposed; not undertaken
- Conflicts
- Membership, student power and credit, sponsor influence, challenge-owner interests, confidentiality, intellectual property, export restrictions, civil-and-defensive dual use, time commitment, and judging independence require role-specific review.
- What Would Change
- A change to registration status, deadlines, team cap, tracks, eligibility, membership, service, intellectual-property, confidentiality, export, judging, or showcase terms would change this assessment.