>>>CLOSING DATE EXTENSION<<<
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:57 pm
Dear all,
A number of teams have been wondering and asking whether the N-Prize will be extended beyond its original deadline of September 19th, 2011.
I am happy to announce that there will be an extension, of exactly one year. Therefore, the prize will remain open until September 19th 2012. The wording of the rules will be updated shortly to reflect this.
For those of you who were racing to try to meet the 2011 deadline, the race is still on! It remains a "first past the post" competition (in each of the two categories - reuseable and single-shot), so the deadline extension should not alter your plans in any way. For those teams who did not expect to meet the original deadline - including the many teams who have signed up within the last few months, and those of you mired in a sea of regulatory paperwork - the extended deadline should mean that you are still in with a chance.
I hope this announcement will not slow the pace of those teams who are nearing an N-Prize launch, and I hope also that it will give teams a little more breathing space to develop their technology and negotiate their way through (or around) the red tape.
Best wishes to all the teams. Have fun, be creative, and make astronautical history! (Oh, and be safe, I guess.)
Paul
A number of teams have been wondering and asking whether the N-Prize will be extended beyond its original deadline of September 19th, 2011.
I am happy to announce that there will be an extension, of exactly one year. Therefore, the prize will remain open until September 19th 2012. The wording of the rules will be updated shortly to reflect this.
For those of you who were racing to try to meet the 2011 deadline, the race is still on! It remains a "first past the post" competition (in each of the two categories - reuseable and single-shot), so the deadline extension should not alter your plans in any way. For those teams who did not expect to meet the original deadline - including the many teams who have signed up within the last few months, and those of you mired in a sea of regulatory paperwork - the extended deadline should mean that you are still in with a chance.
I hope this announcement will not slow the pace of those teams who are nearing an N-Prize launch, and I hope also that it will give teams a little more breathing space to develop their technology and negotiate their way through (or around) the red tape.
Best wishes to all the teams. Have fun, be creative, and make astronautical history! (Oh, and be safe, I guess.)
Paul