BBC Aerospace to Compete in Space Frontier Foundation’s 2013 Newspace Business Plan Competition

Orlando, Fla. --- BBC Aerospace, which is developing a spacecraft to deliver and retrieve satellites, has been chosen to participate in the Space Frontier Foundation’s 2013 NewSpace Business Plan Competition Oct. 22-23 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Michael Gandia, Chief Technology Officer at BBC Aerospace, said the invitation award includes air fare and hotel accommodations, along with a two-day “boot camp” to help ready competitors to present their business plans before a panel of judges at Stanford University for a chance to win $100,000 prize plus investments, before audience that includes technology investment professionals from Silicon Valley. “This is a marvelous opportunity for us to secure research funds and we are honored to participate,” Gandia said. Currently, BBC Aerospace is focused on commercializing an innovative rapid metal manufacturing technology to generate revenue and for use in the near future to manufacture an innovative, proprietary space plane design that will enable dramatically cheaper, faster launch services to address the growing needs of government, industry and academic customers. BBC Aerospace is a member of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in the Central Florida Research Park in East Orange County.