Team Phoenicia/Techshop Nanosat Launcher Seminar Update

FYI.

NASA has not selected an allied organization. NASA will be presenting the draft rules and asking for feedback. The agenda as of 11/1/10 is as follows:



1:00 PM: William Baird, Team Phoenicia, Introduction and Welcome

1:15 PM: Andrew Petro, NASA Centennial Challenge Program, Scope and Hopes for the Centennial Challenges

1:45 PM: Dr Andrew Kalman, Stanford University's Space and Systems Development Laboratory, The Potential of an Affordable, Responsive Nanosat Launcher

2:15 PM: NASA Centennial Challenge Program, Draft Nanosat Launcher Challenge Rules

3:15 PM: BREAK. Tours of Techshop Available

3:30 PM: William Baird, Team Phoenicia, How Team Phoenicia Can and Is Helping Nanosat Launcher Teams

3:50 PM: Invited. Waiting to Hear. Topic: Funding Nanosat Launcher Challenge Teams.

4:10 PM: BREAK, Tours of Techshop Available

4:20 PM: Aaron Prescott, SpacePort America, How SPA can help the Nanosat Launcher Challenge Teams

4:40 PM: Paul Breed, Friends of Amateur Rocketry, What FAR is and what it can do for the NLC teams

5:00 PM: Sherman Council, et al, Federal Aviation Administration: rules and requirements

6:00 PM: Nanosat Challenge Teams Panel/Micro Presentations (currently Vog Rockets, Seraphim Aerospace, possibly a mystery team)

6:30 PM: William Baird, Team Phoenicia, Closing Remarks

6:40 PM: Networking Session, official wrap at 8 PM.

Questions can be directed to nanosatseminar@teamphoenicia.org.

Reservations are NOT required nor is registration: if there is space, it is free and open to the public. However, this is on a first come, first serve basis. You CAN reserve a seat, but it is NOT free.

The link for reservations is her:

http://www.teamphoenicia.org/nlc/contact.html

Between now and midnight PT Nov 6th, the reservations are $75. On Nov 6th until 11 AM, the reservations are $100. No money will be accepted at the shop and reservations that are placed and the money unpaid are considered invalid.