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The 2010-2011 Student Competition focuses on "Design and Analysis of Economic Benefits of a Propellant Depot," managed by AIAA. Key deadlines include abstract submission by December 2009, RFPs released around August 2010, and students’ proposals due by June 2011. Evaluation will occur in July 2011, with winners announced by AIAA later that summer. Only one team has entered this year, highlighting a need for increased participation. The upcoming competition for 2011-2012 will focus on design and business plans for commercial ETO passenger vehicles.
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Student Competition Schedule 2010-2011 Student competition “Design and analysis of economic benefit of a Propellant Depot” • 1. STTC abstract due to AIAA on Dec 2009 • 2. STTC RFP due to AIAA by May/Jun 2010 (just sent in July) • 3. RFPs publicly released ~Aug 2010 (waiting to hear back from • 4. Students Letters of Intent due ~Mar 2011 • 5. Students proposals due to AIAA by ~Jun 2011 • 6. STTC evaluation of proposals (On-going - Jul 2011) • 7. STTC final selection/approval of 1st, 2nd, 3rd place teams typically at JPC (Aug 2011) • 8. SSTC informs AIAA to support the award announcement (in ~Aug 2011) • 9. Winning teams announced and recognized by AIAA at Space (usually ~late Aug/early Sep 2011) • This year we only had one entrant! • Will award either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Place award depending on quality of proposal • Help us spread the word so this does not happen next year!
RFP for 20111-2012 Competition“Design and Business Plan for a Commercial ETO Passenger Vehicle” • Will now be run by Doug Stanley (Thanks for all of your hard work Brian!!) • Submitted to AIAA for evaluation and eventual posting. • Thanks for all of your help in creating and editing this RFP!!