Logan was mission control to a major space conference for decades. Now, the event is leaving.

Logan • Turns out, a space conference needs more space — not out there in the cosmos, but right here in Utah.

The Small Satellite Conference, hosted in Logan for nearly four decades, will be moving to Salt Lake City next year. The event’s chair, Pat Patterson, announced the change during Monday’s conference, saying the event has outgrown the northern Utah city.

The conference, commonly referred to as the SmallSat, is held each August and attracts thousands of engineers, rocket scientists, academics and inventors from around the world. Attendance has swelled since the first conference, held in 1987, when only 45 people joined, Patterson said. This year, he estimates there are 3,700 to 3,800 attendees, stressing a city with only about a thousand hotel rooms.

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Logan was mission control to a major space conference for decades. Now, the event is leaving.

Logan was mission control to a major space conference for decades. Now, the event is leaving.

Logan was mission control to a major space conference for decades. Now, the event is leaving.

Logan was mission control to a major space conference for decades. Now, the event is leaving.

Logan was mission control to a major space conference for decades. Now, the event is leaving.