Raising capital to support a commercial space business strategy is a challenge for nearly all entrepreneurs. Lee Rand, Partner with Sun Mountain Capital, will lead a discussion by three business executives on the questions to ask investors, the different paths for different business models and the challenges of finding funding source. The panelists are:
•Grant Anderson, VP of engineering and co-founder of Paragon Space Systems.
•Mark Sirangelo, EVP of Sierra Nevada Corporation and chair of the ...
New Mexico State University's Space Grant Consortium, organizer of ISPCS, has been selected to lead a new national Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
ISPCS Chair Patricia Hynes, director of NMSU's Space Grant Consortium, will be the Executive Director of the new Center. "I am honored to be selected to lead this new Center for the FAA. ISPCS and its many partners will be invaluable as we create the ...
Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA, will discuss planning for NASA's programs in science, aeronautics, and human space flight, including the agency's latest plans for commercial access to space, in her keynote address at the ISPCS conference during Space Week in New Mexico.
Garver is the number two official at the agency behind Administrator Charles Bolden.
"Lori's leadership has been vital to getting people in and out of ...
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Neil Sheehan to Deliver
Keynote at ISPCS on Wednesday, October 20
Neil Sheehan's long awaited epic "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War," will be the focus of the ISPCS Wednesday Keynote. The never-before-released history of the ICBM program is traced through the career of its visionary leader Air Force General Bernard Schriever, the civilian patrons, defense intellectuals and aerospace entrepreneurs who helped a new industry - ...
Held October 20 and 21 During Space Week in New Mexico
The sixth annual International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS 2010) is accepting Early Bird registrations beginning July 1st and is offering a $50 discount for attendees who register prior to October 2.
This year's conference, expected to attract over 400 company executives, government officials and industry and university researchers, will be held in Las Cruces on Wednesday and ...
