Team Phoenicia is proud to announce our second Nanosatellite Launcher Challenge seminar. We conducted the first Nanosat Launcher Challenge Seminar at Techshop - Menlo Park on November 7th, 2010 (there is extensive video on our youtube channel). The second seminar will take place at both TechShop and our new facility, The Shipyard, on November 12th and 13th, 2011.

The first seminar was a great success, but could be improved upon. This will be upgraded to a two day event based on the feedback that we have received. Food and drink will be provided. More time will be allotted for critical topics. The first day will largely cover the same ground as the first nanosat launcher challenge seminar, but the rules discussion will be much longer. We hope to have more potential launch sites present as well. The second day will be largely dedicated to the teams and their potential suppliers.

Our hope is that we can hope promote NewSpace as an industry rather than just individuals teams competing for the prize. A seminar with a narrow focus on the Nanosat Launcher Challenge will further this by keeping attendees looking at their own needs and suppliers will be paying attention to what they can provide specifically to building small launchers. This seems lost in a larger, broad based conference.

Now. How does this apply to our GLXP bid? Funds from us acting as NLC suppliers are going towards our GLXP costs. We hope we can recruit more teams and sell more rockets, but we do not want this to just be about us. We do have the philosophy of "Up! Not DOWN!" so we're going to provide the venue and bring together as many others as we can.

The full agenda will be revealed soon.

Registration will begin September 1st, 2011.

More details to come.