Learn
Complete MissionLab practice missions.
Open as software-only pilot lessons; no Challenge entry is required.
Browse practice missionsMissionLab Challenge · Parwaz Pathfinder Edition
Schools compete by solving spacecraft missions.
Learn space engineering in standard MissionLab missions. Then, when each stage is enabled, qualify, prove your work and compete as a school mission team.
Practice is software-only and formative. Qualification, official rounds and supervised hardware each have separate eligibility and activation gates.
How the Challenge works
Simple outside. Deep inside.
Every team starts with MissionLab practice. Controlled Challenge stages appear only when the team, round and operating environment are ready.
Qualify
Solve controlled digital mission challenges.
Team eligibility and server-controlled round rules apply.
Check qualification accessProve
Selected teams may progress to supervised Arena and hardware opportunities where enabled.
Optional, separately gated and always operator-supervised.
See the supervised pathwayCompete
When official rounds are activated, eligible teams progress through the competition.
Official activation, fixed attempt quotas and published rules are required.
Open official competitionMissionLab practice
Learn by running standard spacecraft missions.
These are the same runnable pilot missions used across MissionLab—not a second Challenge lesson catalog. MissionLab practice is formative and software-only. Practice results are not official attempts or measured hardware evidence.
MissionLab · MLX-05
Stop the spin
How do you stop something spinning in space, where there is nothing to push against?
These results are produced by a model. Nothing here was measured on a real spacecraft.
Run this MissionLab missionMissionLab · MLX-03
Survive the shadow
When the Sun disappears, which spacecraft copes better - and how would you know?
The battery, voltage and temperature numbers are produced by a model. Nothing here was measured on a real spacecraft.
Run this MissionLab missionMissionLab · MLX-02
Trust the telemetry
If the instruments get worse, does the spacecraft get worse - or does it just stop knowing where it is?
The instrument readings are simulated by a teaching model. No real sensor was measured.
Run this MissionLab missionMissionLab · MLX-11
Find the failure
The payload worked and the data never arrived. What stopped it?
These mission readings are produced by a model. No real mission was flown.
Run this MissionLab missionMissionLab · MLX-08
Get the picture home
A sharper camera takes better pictures. Does it get more of them home?
These results are produced by a model. No real image was captured and no real downlink took place.
Run this MissionLab missionQualification and competition
Official work starts only after eligibility.
Official attempts remain fixed-quota, eligibility-gated and server-authoritative. Hidden seeds and scoring authority stay server-side.
Mission Credits purchase optional practice only. They never purchase, restore or increase official attempts.
Check qualification accessOptional proof layer
Arena and hardware stay separately gated.
Hardware and Arena opportunities are optional, separately enabled and supervised. The physical operator retains final authority.
Supervised one-axis evidence is training and correlation evidence—not flight qualification or proof of physical commissioning.
See the supervised pathwayMission teams
One competition, level-appropriate support.
Schools, colleges, universities and selected international teams enter through mentor-led registration while sharing the same MissionLab-first pathway.
school
School Mission Teams
Visual controls, guided missions and age-appropriate engineering decisions.
college
College Mission Teams
Block coding, sensors, telemetry and controller tuning.
university
University Mission Teams
Control systems, mission scripting, faults, AI and evidence-based engineering.
international
International Invitational Teams
Selected teams participate through the same digital-twin mission framework.
Specialist team, event and public workspaces
These tools remain available for their real audiences. A first-time team does not need them before running a standard MissionLab mission.
Mission teams
Registration, team status and privacy-safe team identity.
Advanced team practice
Specialist Challenge tools after the standard MissionLab journey.
Eligible, event and public audiences
Gated official workspaces and privacy-safe published views.
Your next action
Start with one MissionLab practice mission.
A mentor can register the team after learners understand the mission journey. Official rounds and hardware remain conditional.