A team of Ukrainian developers from Kyiv won the international hackathon NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024, the Ministry of Digital Transformation reported..

More than 90 thousand participants from all over the world took part in the competition, forming about 10 thousand teams. Of these, about a thousand projects were evaluated directly by NASA. The Ukrainian team was recognized as the best in the Galactic Impact category.

The winning project of the team from the Kyiv Aviation Institute is an innovative NVS-knot application that integrates satellite and hydrological data to assess soil moisture and reduce water risks when planting crops. It will help farmers and improve food security.

NASA Space Apps Challenge is an international hackathon founded in 2012, which takes place under the auspices of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in different countries of the world..

The competition takes place annually and lasts 48 hours, during which space enthusiasts from around the world work to solve real-life problems from NASA.

The NASA team will personally award the NVS-knot at their headquarters.

In 2023, the project of the Ukrainian team Storm Prophet, which involved forecasting geomagnetic storms using DSCOVR data analysis and LSTM models, won in the “Best Use of Data” category at the NASA Space Apps Challenge.

In 2021, the Ukrainian FireWay team became the winner of the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020 hackathon in the “Best Use of Technology” category.