{"id":771548,"date":"2023-10-31T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771548"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:17:00","slug":"from-food-products-to-space-the-aetheratm-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771548","title":{"rendered":"From food products to space: the AetheraTM story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) awarded a contribution worth $1.5 million to a small Halifax-based company called AetheraTM Technologies. This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) was the first to include a dedicated section for small businesses, a strategic decision to help diversify Canada&#8217;s space sector and help small firms scale up to space readiness. AetheraTM is a radiofrequency (RF) engineering company, whose products include solid-state RF generators that are used in a number of fields including food and mass timber. The AetheraTM team saw the AO as an opportunity to branch out their technology for space. They successfully proposed a project to adapt it to operate in the vacuum of space and to be integrated into Ad Astra Rocket Company&#8217;s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR\u00ae) for advanced in-space electric propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/news\/articles\/2023\/2023-10-31-from-food-products-to-space-the-aethera-story.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From food products to space: the AetheraTM story<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Canadian Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) awarded a contribution worth $1.5 million to a small Halifax-based company called AetheraTM Technologies. This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) was the first to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-CSA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}