{"id":771696,"date":"2023-11-10T04:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771696"},"modified":"2023-11-10T04:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T08:49:50","slug":"from-food-products-to-space-the-aetheratm-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771696","title":{"rendered":"From food products to space: the AetheraTM story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<head>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<meta charset=\"utf-8\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=Edge\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    <!-- Web Experience Toolkit (WET) \/ 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This Announcement of Opportunity (<abbr>AO<\/abbr>) 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. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Aethera<sup><abbr title=\"Trademark\">TM<\/abbr><\/sup> is a radiofrequency (<abbr>RF<\/abbr>) engineering company,  whose products include solid-state <abbr title=\"Radiofrequency\">RF<\/abbr> generators that are used in a number of  fields including food and mass timber. The Aethera<sup><abbr title=\"Trademark\">TM<\/abbr><\/sup> team saw the <abbr title=\"Announcement of Opportunity\">AO<\/abbr> as an opportunity to branch out their technology for space. 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