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Frontier Challenge 2127
Your team. Your ideas. A future beyond Earth.
Design a space settlement, take on a regional challenge and aim for the global final.
Your mission
Could your team design life in space?
Step into an industry simulation: form a student company and answer a Request for Proposal (RFP) to design a future space settlement.
Work through a demanding brief with the pressures and trade-offs a real design team would face. Use AI, digital design and simulations to test ideas, then defend your team's decisions when judges ask the tough questions.
The pathway
Start in your region.
Think beyond Earth.
Regional challenge
Compete in your region
Organise your student company, answer the RFP, design a settlement and defend your thinking before judges.
Global final
Reach the world stage
Selected teams progress to Frontier Challenge 2127: Global Space Design Challenge. The final stage takes place in July 2027 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Regional rounds
Around the world. One shared challenge.
Regional teams take on the same big question: how could people live beyond Earth?
- Frontier Challenge 2127Asia & Oceania Space Design Challenge
- Frontier Challenge 2127Middle East Space Design Challenge
- Frontier Challenge 2127Africa Space Design Challenge
- Frontier Challenge 2127Americas Space Design Challenge
- Frontier Challenge 2127Europe Space Design Challenge
What you'll do
Run the company. Design the settlement. Defend the plan.
A demanding brief, company roles and a proposal that must stand up to questions.
01
Answer the RFP
Your company receives a Request for Proposal. Work out what the settlement needs: safe living spaces, food, water, energy and a feasible budget.
02
Build the proposal
Research options, use AI and digital simulations to test them, and bring engineering, environmental design and business decisions into one proposal.
03
Defend your decisions
Present your design to judges, explain the evidence and trade-offs, and answer questions about how it would work.
Find your role
You don't have to be a rocket scientist.
A strong company needs more than one kind of thinker. You might design a habitat, solve a resource problem, lead the team or make the numbers work.
EngineeringConnect power, transport, structures and safety into a working settlement.
Environmental designPlan how water, food, energy and materials can be used responsibly.
ArchitectureCreate places where people can live, work, learn and spend time together.
ManagementCoordinate the company, set priorities and keep every discipline moving together.
FinanceWeigh costs and trade-offs so the team can defend a practical proposal.
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Bring your ideas to Frontier Challenge 2127.
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