1. Competition kick-off and training Sessions for SolidWorks and CATIA on 16th and 23rd January respectively, conducted by Trainers from Dassault Systemes. Both trainings would be full day sessions and training location will be at NTU CAE Lab 1, N3-b3b-05. We highly encourage at least 1 laptop to be brought per team.

2. Scheduled site visits to Sponsoring Organisations
Site visits to the companies below would be arranged exclusively for all SSC 2010 participants:
• SembCorp Marine Ltd
• Embraer Singapore
• Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
• Defence Science & Technology Agency
These site visits would be organized for all students through the months of Feb-April. The tentative timeline for the above would be on 3rd Week February, 2nd Week March, and 1st Week April. All site visits would be confirmed at least 2 weeks before the visit and participants would be informed via email. Details would also be posted on our website.

3. Participation at the Knowledge and Interest-based session on Day 3 of the GSTC-SATTECH 2010 Conference, on 30th January 2010. Held in conjunction with the Singapore Airshow 2010, GSTC-SATTECH 2010 will showcase and discuss the latest concepts, possibilities in today’s dynamic Space domains. The event will feature renowned international and regional industry leaders and representatives and bring into Singapore updates on the developments in the international space industry well as debates and discussions on new and emerging Space-related ventures.. For more details, visit www.gstc-sattech.com.

4. In the interim, we strongly encourage all student teams to begin initial conceptualization of your Space Plane, both interior and exterior designs as well as to research for commercially available designs of the Space Plane engine, as it would not be provided. In addition, to facilitate your understanding of the targets of the competition, please do refer to the Competition guidelines.

We look forward to meeting all of you in January 2010, and should you have any queries and clarification to the above, please do not hesitate to drop me a line. We welcome any suggestions or comments you may have to make this competition a more exciting, engaging and fulfilling one for each one of you!