OCULLO Challenges

Solve one problem. Get paid. Get noticed.

Not ready for a cheque yet? OCULLO Challenges pay USD 5,000–10,000 for working solutions to specific engineering problems on our own missions. Winners are fast-tracked into the next cohort.

  1. 01

    Pick a brief

    Each one is a real problem on a mission we fly.

  2. 02

    Build it

    Any team size, any country. No company needed.

  3. 03

    Show it working

    A photo, a video and your test data.

  4. 04

    We test

    We test the best entries ourselves.

  5. 05

    Get paid

    The winner is paid within 30 days of the decision.

You keep your IP. If we want to use the winning design on our missions, we'll agree a licence or purchase with you separately.

Rocket recovery tracker

Find a sounding rocket's payload fast after landing.

Send GNSS position over LoRa, survive landing shock, cost under USD 200 in parts.

USD 5,000

Open

Enter a challenge

PocketQube ground station

Catch every pass of a 1P PocketQube automatically.

Be open-source and auto-tracking, total cost under USD 1,000.

USD 7,500

Open

Enter a challenge

PocketQube deployable antenna

Get more gain from a 5 cm satellite.

Stow inside the 1P envelope, deploy on command, survive launch vibration.

USD 10,000

Open

Enter a challenge

One prize per challenge. We may not award a prize if no entry meets the brief. Entries stay confidential and are never used to train AI models. Don't submit export-controlled data.