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2 COMPETITION BASICS

Design Weekend

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The goal of the design weekend is for entrants to submit their pod designs, which, after receiving feedback and vetting from SpaceX officials, will then be constructed for the competition weekend.

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Entities that are not interested in building a pod may still present designs for a pod, an individual subsystem, or an individual safety feature. As an example of an individual subsystem submission, a team could choose to optimize the pod

’s

aerodynamics or to design the p

od’s

low-speed system. The purpose of this sub mission would be to receive design feedback and to participate in a fun educational event.

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Entrants will present before an evaluation panel, which will be composed mainly of SpaceX engineers, Tesla Motors engineers, and university professors.

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Companies will be able to use design weekend as a platform for selecting teams to sponsor, meaning that those companies would then contribute funds, at their discretion, toward the construction of

a team’s

competition pod.

Competition Weekend

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The criteria and rules for the competition weekend will be more rigorous than those used during design weekend, and they will be released in August 2015 as part of Event B.

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In addition to hosting the competition, SpaceX will likely build a pod for demonstration purposes only. This team will not be eligible to win.

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At SpaceX’s discretion, teams will be allowed to test their

pods through the test track before competition weekend.

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SpaceX, at its sole discretion, may allow or disallow entrants from accessing the test t rack.

No human will ride in any pod or other transport device used on the test track during this competition.

3 EVENT B: RELEASE OF COMPETITION RULES

SpaceX will publicly release a package which includes:

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Requirements for Preliminary Design Briefing contents 2.

Requirements for Final Design Package contents 3.

Full Design Weekend logistics 4.

Full Competition Weekend rules 5.

Full criteria and performance metrics for Competition Weekend judging 6.

Complete tube specifications 7.

Competition Entry Agreement to be signed by all entrants 8.